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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: STIX (was About 2.0)
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-03-29 0:30:45
Message-ID: 200603291230.45974.zander () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 06:42, Alfredo Beaumont wrote:
> > I don't know, it looks pretty free (as in beer) to me... although
> > certainly not Free in the FSF sense. If you're worried about Debian,
> > perhaps include the BaKoMa fonts but suggest installing STIX?
>
> My idea was to pick one complete enough Free font, include it with
> KFormula and use just that. I think there're complete enough Free fonts
> to support MathML fully (and TeX aswell, if we use a TeX font ;). And
> it must be Free to be able to package it. If STIX were Free, that would
> highly probably be the font of choice, but unfortunately is not, so
> I'll have to pick a TeX font probably. Unless anybody else has another
> idea.

Lets stay practical here; the stix license is completely free, just not 
open source. This means we can safely put it in the KOffice tarballs and 
ship and install it.
The debain people will most likely not want to ship it due to the 'you can 
not modify the fonts' clause (pt 3) this naturally means debian packagers 
should have the option of not packaging the font since we don't want 
koffice to end up in non-free.  Which is pretty easy to do in the 
configure system IMOHO.

So; unless there is a better solution (like your TeX idea) that we can 
actually use, we should go for the stix font.

-- 
Thomas Zander

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