Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9623 Various versions of Photoshop, and now Safari 4, insist on Times New Roman being present or they crash on startup. ("winetricks corefonts" works around it.) Packaging Liberation Serif with Wine and putting a registry key to substitute Times New Roman with it would do the job and solve the bug nicely. 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? - d.
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. Remco
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.
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