Re: [Xorg] Re: [Fontconfig] adding/distributing new fonts

[Stepan Roh <stepan srnet cz>]

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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> An "official" Vera fork endorsed by all free software Vera users would
> probably help a lot (much like the ximian oo.o fork). I already knew of
> 3-4 Vera flavours but not this one, and I do follow some of the related
> lists. It's funny how the licencing affects the life of a software
> project.
>
> Like it has already been said, freedesktop.org is the ideal place to
> host such a project.

I (Stepan Roh, maintainer of DejaVu fonts = Czech/Slovak characters) and 
Danilo Segan (maintainer of Bepa fonts = Serbian (Cyrillic) characters) 
are in the process of merging our fonts under the DejaVu umbrella. I also 
informed Dafydd Harris that I would be more than happy to merge his 
changes from Olwen (= Welsh characters). This joint effort will probably 
be the biggest Vera fork available.

DejaVu is hosted on SF.net (http://dejavu.sf.net) which has some 
deficiencies. Danilo suggested move to freedesktop.org, but I thought it 
would be better to do the merge first and then think about it. I'm not 
sure now. Would it be better to move to freedesktop.org now?

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh