Re: Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead

[David Gerard]

2009/3/2 Remco <remco47(a)gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus
> > font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible
> > without making Wine entirely GPL?
> Yes, I would think that that constitutes mere aggregation, which is
> allowed by the GPL and the LGPL.

Of course, there are other possible metric-compatible fonts under GPL,
e.g. Linux Libertine http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ which
looks more like Times than Liberation Serif does. But then we're
getting into matters of taste :-)


- d.