1Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright 2 3The fonts have a generous copyright, allowing derivative works (as 4long as "Bitstream" or "Vera" are not in the names), and full 5redistribution (so long as they are not *sold* by themselves). They 6can be be bundled, redistributed and sold with any software. 7 8The fonts are distributed under the following copyright: 9 10Copyright 11========= 12 13Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bitstream 14Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc. 15 16Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 17a copy of the fonts accompanying this license ("Fonts") and associated 18documentation files (the "Font Software"), to reproduce and distribute 19the Font Software, including without limitation the rights to use, 20copy, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Font 21Software, and to permit persons to whom the Font Software is furnished 22to do so, subject to the following conditions: 23 24The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice 25shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software 26typefaces. 27 28The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in 29particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be 30modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the 31Fonts, only if the fonts are renamed to names not containing either 32the words "Bitstream" or the word "Vera". 33 34This License becomes null and void to the extent applicable to Fonts 35or Font Software that has been modified and is distributed under the 36"Bitstream Vera" names. 37 38The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but 39no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by 40itself. 41 42THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 43EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF 44MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT 45OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 46BITSTREAM OR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 47OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, 48OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR 49OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT 50SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE. 51 52Except as contained in this notice, the names of Gnome, the Gnome 53Foundation, and Bitstream Inc., shall not be used in advertising or 54otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Font 55Software without prior written authorization from the Gnome Foundation 56or Bitstream Inc., respectively. For further information, contact: 57fonts at gnome dot org. 58 59Copyright FAQ 60============= 61 621. I don't understand the resale restriction... What gives? 63 64Bitstream is giving away these fonts, but wishes to ensure its 65competitors can't just drop the fonts as is into a font sale system 66and sell them as is. It seems fair that if Bitstream can't make money 67from the Bitstream Vera fonts, their competitors should not be able to 68do so either. You can sell the fonts as part of any software package, 69however. 70 712. I want to package these fonts separately for distribution and 72sale as part of a larger software package or system. Can I do so? 73 74Yes. A RPM or Debian package is a "larger software package" to begin 75with, and you aren't selling them independently by themselves. 76See 1. above. 77 783. Are derivative works allowed? 79Yes! 80 814. Can I change or add to the font(s)? 82Yes, but you must change the name(s) of the font(s). 83 845. Under what terms are derivative works allowed? 85 86You must change the name(s) of the fonts. This is to ensure the 87quality of the fonts, both to protect Bitstream and Gnome. We want to 88ensure that if an application has opened a font specifically of these 89names, it gets what it expects (though of course, using fontconfig, 90substitutions could still could have occurred during font 91opening). You must include the Bitstream copyright. Additional 92copyrights can be added, as per copyright law. Happy Font Hacking! 93 946. If I have improvements for Bitstream Vera, is it possible they might get 95adopted in future versions? 96 97Yes. The contract between the Gnome Foundation and Bitstream has 98provisions for working with Bitstream to ensure quality additions to 99the Bitstream Vera font family. Please contact us if you have such 100additions. Note, that in general, we will want such additions for the 101entire family, not just a single font, and that you'll have to keep 102both Gnome and Jim Lyles, Vera's designer, happy! To make sense to add 103glyphs to the font, they must be stylistically in keeping with Vera's 104design. Vera cannot become a "ransom note" font. Jim Lyles will be 105providing a document describing the design elements used in Vera, as a 106guide and aid for people interested in contributing to Vera. 107 1087. I want to sell a software package that uses these fonts: Can I do so? 109 110Sure. Bundle the fonts with your software and sell your software 111with the fonts. That is the intent of the copyright. 112 1138. If applications have built the names "Bitstream Vera" into them, 114can I override this somehow to use fonts of my choosing? 115 116This depends on exact details of the software. Most open source 117systems and software (e.g., Gnome, KDE, etc.) are now converting to 118use fontconfig (see www.fontconfig.org) to handle font configuration, 119selection and substitution; it has provisions for overriding font 120names and subsituting alternatives. An example is provided by the 121supplied local.conf file, which chooses the family Bitstream Vera for 122"sans", "serif" and "monospace". Other software (e.g., the XFree86 123core server) has other mechanisms for font substitution. 124 125Show details Hide details 126 127Change log 128r2011 by mark.nickel on Mar 3, 2011 Diff 129 130Majority of Multi-Line text editing is in 131the commit. Also added some specific free 132fonts to replace the existing set as we 133need some additional font metrics that we 134use in the Text Editing rendering 135pipeline. 136 137You can see the font licenses in the 138editor/fonts folder under each font. 139 140Still have some cleanup to do to add the 141text formatting (left,right,center) as 142... 143 144Go to: 145Hide comments 146Show comments 147 148Older revisions 149All revisions of this file 150 151File info 152Size: 5953 bytes, 123 lines 153View raw file 154 155File properties 156 157svn:executable 158 * 159 160 161