On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Qian Hong qhong@codeweavers.com wrote:
However, I would like to bring a related discussion:
- Could we copy glyphs from GPL font like WenQuanYi Micro Hei and reuse in
Wine fonts?
- Could we copy glyphs from Apache license font like Adobe Source Han Sans
and reuse in Wine fonts?
Anyone has comment on the above questions please? And one more: Could we copy glyphs from symbola font and reuse in Wine fonts? Symbola font is "offered free for any use", according to its official page: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
It also pass fedora's license review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532819
FWIW, Yida Wang is working on an experiment program, using smart computer vision algorithm like PCANet ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3606 ), to discover similar wingdings glyphs from symbola fonts automatically.
So far the result is not bad, see the two attachments, windings.png is wingdings glyphs, and symbola.png is similar glyphs from symbola which map to wingdings glyphs. The result is not complete, it is just an experiment.
Once the program is trained and optimized we could use it to discover more glyphs for wingdings/wingdings2/wingdings3/webdings/mtextra and even more, which are useful for not only Wine, but also Libreoffice, WPS and other Linux application. That might also bring a new question: would we want to redistribute Wingdings and similar fonts outsite of Wine, so that they could be installed to system directories like /usr/share/fonts/truetype and reused by application like WPS and Libreoffice?
Any comment is still great appreciated!
