{"id":248,"date":"2007-05-15T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:07:38","slug":"further-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/typo\/further-liberation","title":{"rendered":"Further Liberation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we check the font infos of Liberation font, on Fontforge, for example, here is what we find:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"liberation1.png\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/liberation1.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/liberation1.png\" alt=\"liberation1.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCopyright Ascender Corp&#8230;<br \/>\nand a trademark: <em>&#8220;Liberation is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and certain other jurisdictions.&#8221;<\/em>. In the license text of the ttf font package, we find: &#8220;<em>Copyright \u00ac\u00a9 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. LIBERATION is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.<\/em>&#8220;, and the license text is GPL.<br \/>\nStill, the license informations says:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Use of this Liberation font software is subject to the license agreement under which you accepted the Liberation font software.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interesting as well: Liberation Sans seems to have been created in 1970, while all the others in the pack were in 2004 or 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Liberated fonts are not exempt of paradoxes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, the owner of rights of this font are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascendercorp.com\/\">Ascender Corporation<\/a>, <em>&#8220;leading provider of advanced font products specializing in type design, font development and licensing&#8221;<\/em> company, which offers services such as Font Branding.<br \/>\nyou can also contact their &#8220;Font Licensing Specialists&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascendercorp.com\/stevepage.html\">Steve Matteson<\/a> knows exactly the font system specs &#8211; and what he does: &#8220;<em>&#8230;in 1990 he began work at Monotype to create the Windows core TrueType fonts: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New<\/em>&#8220;. He designed a.o. Xbox 360 Branding Fonts and is part of the Segoe Vista font team development.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there is no Comic-Sans-like font in the L-pack. Which designer will have the honour of drawing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we check the font infos of Liberation font, on Fontforge, for example, here is what we find:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[66,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}