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[Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Fabian.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Fabian Rodriguez <magicfab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:14 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=font_test_sans_converted.pdf
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=font_test_serif_converted.pdf
>>
>> Kevin Godby and I went through the fonts. We looked at individual letter
>> forms, kerning, glyph coverage and style (not too stiff, but not funky,
>> either). We settled on Biolinum (sans 4) and Libertine (serif 5). 2nd
>> choices might have been Charis SIL and Gillius ADF No2.
>
> What specific licenses cover such fonts ? It will be important when
> releasing the manual for free distribution to have freely-licensed fonts
> and make this licensing clear, while providing direct links to the
> appropriate files/packages so the manual toolchain remains free too.

The fonts we chose are dual-licensed under GPL (with the font
exception) and the OFL.  The website for the fonts is:

  http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/

--Kevin