{"id":11,"date":"2006-02-12T18:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-09-08T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:03:22","slug":"bitstream-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/typo\/bitstream-charter","title":{"rendered":"Bitstream Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise <strong>Bitstream Charter<\/strong>, one of the few usable Open Source fonts around I know of,  is currently published on myfonts.com with the following licence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/viewlicense?id=315\">http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/viewlicense?id=315<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/noMod.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/noMod.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"no modifications\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cramer.plaintext.cc:70\/\">Florian Cramer<\/a> explains what is really going on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s true, but the license change refers to a newer version of Bitstream Charter. A copyright owner of a work is free to change the licensing terms any time, either rendering a formely free work proprietary or vice versa. But a license change can never be retroactive, i.e. it can&#8217;t affect the licensing terms of a previously released version of the same work. (Same happened to SSH for example: The original SSH continues to be developed as proprietary software, whereas OpenSSH &#8211; included among others in Mac OS X and Linux &#8211; was developed on the basis of an older, free version of the original SSH package.)<\/p>\n<p>An older version of Bitstream Charter was donated to the X Window system and continues to be available under the extremely liberal MIT\/X11 license.  In Debian and Ubuntu, the font is part of the package &#8220;xfonts-scalable&#8221; which is in the fully free standard distribution.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scripts.sil.org\/cms\/scripts\/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;item_id=Gentium&amp;_sc=1\">Gentium<\/a>&#8221; font is another interesting typeface that just has switched to a free license.  However, the license is still under review by Debian. It&#8217;s a classicist font that looks more conservative than Charter, but it offers a greater number of international glyphs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise Bitstream Charter, one of the few usable Open Source fonts around I know of, is currently published on myfonts.com with the following licence: http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/viewlicense?id=315 Florian Cramer explains what is really going on: &#8220;That&#8217;s true, but the license change refers to a newer version of Bitstream Charter. A copyright owner of a work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[66,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}