https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53739
Zeb Figura z.figura12@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #17 from Zeb Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to 399989567 from comment #10)
Q1: You said this is a free font, so I would like to ask if these fontsare commercially available.
Q2: I would like to ask if all the fonts under the "./wine/fonts" file are free fonts, and my judgment that the fonts are copyrighted is only because the font's familyname seems to be Microsoft's copyrighted fonts.Like tahoma, I found out by searching that this is a Microsoft non-commercial font.
In wine, is it only the family name of fonts is the same as the Microsoft non-commercial font,in fact, the internal font is made by our own wine.
Like the rest of Wine, our fonts are provided under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. That fact is actually provided in the font source and binary file, but may be nontrivial to discover. The basic provision of the license is that you can use, modify, and redistribute the fonts, as long as you make those modifications public to anyone you redistribute the fonts to. You can read the license in its entirety here: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/COPYING.LIB
Our fonts have the same name as Microsoft fonts by necessity, because programs expect to open the Microsoft font by name.
Q3：You said "provided by Wine project.", I would like to ask where can I see how these fonts are provided by wine? I am interested in fonts and I would like to know if I can have a chance to be involved in the production of wine fonts, so I would like to know how these "provided by Wine project" fonts are made.You don't need to tell me exactly how it is done, it would be too much work for you. Just tell me which part of the project I should look at.
Our fonts are built using FontForge. The source files are the .sfd files located in the fonts/ directory of the Wine source:
https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/tree/HEAD:/fonts