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The Ubuntu Font Family is very long-term endeavour, and the first time
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that a professionally-designed font has been funded specifically with
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the intent of being an on-going community expanded project:
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http://font.ubuntu.com/
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Development of the Ubuntu Font Family is undertaken on Launchpad:
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http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/
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and this is where milestones, bug management and releases are handled.
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Contributions are welcomed. Your work will be used on millions of
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computers every single day! Following the initial bootstrapping of
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Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew expansion will be undertaken
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by font designers from the font design and Ubuntu communities.
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To ensure that the Ubuntu Font Family can be re-licensed to future
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widely-used libre font licences, copyright assignment is being required:
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https://launchpad.net/~uff-contributors
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This is the FONTLOG file for the Ubuntu Font Family and attempts to follow
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the recommendations at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web#43cecb44
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Overview
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The new Ubuntu Font Family was started to enable the personality of
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Ubuntu to be seen and felt in every menu, button and dialog.
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The typeface is sans-serif, uses OpenType features and is manually
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hinted for clarity on desktop and mobile computing screens.
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The scope of the Ubuntu Font Family includes all the languages used by
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the various Ubuntu users around the world in tune with Ubuntu's
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philosophy which states that every user should be able to use their
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software in the language of their choice. So the Ubuntu Font Family
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project will be extended to cover many more written languages.
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History
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The Ubuntu Font Family has been creating during 2010 and 2011. As of
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September 2011 coverage is provided for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek across
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Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic. Further work was uptaken during
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2015.
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ChangeLog
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2015-08-21 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.83
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Note: This release was created by binary patching from the v0.80
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release using the scripts in 'sources/patch-0.80-0.83/' to rebuild
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the necessary tables. The release selectively updates only those
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proportional .ttf font files exhibiting the bug below bug number;
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the Ubuntu Mono monospace font files remain unchanged, being the
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original version 0.80 ones.
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[Marc Foley]
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* [Engineering] Fixed wrong characters appear in some mac apps. (LP: #1334363)
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2011-09-22 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.80
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[Vincent Connare/Dalton Maag]
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* Wish for addition of a monospaced member to the family (LP: #640382)
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* Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in
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Netbeans and terrible with ClearType (LP: #820493)
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* Emacs: choosing normal monospace font in Emacs but gives bold-italic
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(LP: #791076)
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* PUA: ensure that Ubuntu Circle of Friends logo is full size: (LP: #853855)
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+ U+E0FF becomes large size in proportionals, remains small width in
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monospaces
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+ U+F0FF becomes small size (proportionals only)
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+ U+F200 is full ubuntu logomark (proportionals only)
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[Paul Sladen]
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* Monospace: Patch Family Name to be "Ubuntu Mono"
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* Monospace: Patch U+EFFD version debugging glyph to be '0.8'
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[Cody Boisclair]
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* Monospace: Force .null HDMX advance to 500
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* Monospace: Remap ASCII box-drawing characters (LP: #788757)
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[Júlio Reis]
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* Date corrections to 'FONTLOG' (LP: #836595)
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2011-03-08 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.71.2
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* (Production) Adjust Medium WeightClass to 500 (Md, MdIt) (LP: #730912)
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2011-03-07 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.71.1
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* (Design) Add Capitalised version of glyphs and kern. (Lt, LtIt,
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Md, MdIt) DM (LP: #677446)
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* (Design) Re-space and tighen Regular and Italic by amount specified
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by Mark Shuttleworth (minus 4 FUnits). (Rg, It) (LP: #677149)
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* (Design) Design: Latin (U+0192) made straight more like l/c f with
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tail (LP: #670768)
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* (Design) (U+01B3) should have hook on right, as the lowercase
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(U+01B4) (LP: #681026)
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* (Design) Tail of Light Italic germandbls, longs and lowercase 'f'
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to match Italic/BoldItalic (LP: #623925)
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* (Production) Update <case> feature (Lt, LtIt, Md, MdIt). DM
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(LP: #676538, #676539)
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* (Production) Remove Bulgarian locl feature for Italics. (LP: #708578)
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* (Production) Update Description information with new string:
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"The Ubuntu Font Family are libre fonts funded by Canonical Ltd
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on behalf of the Ubuntu project. The font design work and
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technical implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag. The
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typeface is sans-serif, uses OpenType features and is manually
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hinted for clarity on desktop and mobile computing screens. The
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scope of the Ubuntu Font Family includes all the languages used
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by the various Ubuntu users around the world in tune with
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Ubuntu's philosophy which states that every user should be able
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to use their software in the language of their choice. The
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project is ongoing, and we expect the family will be extended to
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cover many written languages in the coming years."
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(Rg, It, Bd, BdIt, Lt, LtIt, Md, MdIt) (LP: #690590)
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* (Production) Pixel per em indicator added at U+F000 (Lt, LtIt, Md,
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MdIt) (LP: #615787)
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* (Production) Version number indicator added at U+EFFD (Lt, LtIt, Md,
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MdIt) (LP: #640623)
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* (Production) fstype bit set to 0 - Editable (Lt, LtIt, Md, MdIt)
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(LP: #648406)
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* (Production) Localisation of name table has been removed because
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of problems with Mac OS/X interpretation of localisation. DM
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(LP: #730785)
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* (Hinting) Regular '?' dot non-circular (has incorrect control
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value). (LP: #654336)
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* (Hinting) Too much space after latin capital 'G' in 13pt
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regular. Now reduced. (LP: #683437)
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* (Hinting) Balance Indian Rupee at 18,19pt (LP: #662177)
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* (Hinting) Make Regular '£' less ambiguous at 13-15 ppm (LP: #685562)
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* (Hinting) Regular capital 'W' made symmetrical at 31 ppem (LP: #686168)
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2010-12-14 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.70.1
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Packaging, rebuilt from '2010-12-08 UbuntuFontsSourceFiles_070.zip':
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* (Midstream) Fstype bit != 0 (LP: #648406)
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* (Midstream) Add unit test to validate fstype bits (LP: #648406)
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* (Midstream) Add unit test to validate licence
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2010-12-14 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.70
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Release notes 0.70:
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* (Design) Add Capitalised version of glyphs and kern. (Rg, It, Bd,
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BdIt) DM (LP: #676538, #677446)
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* (Design) Give acute and grave a slight upright move to more match
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the Hungarian double acute angle. (Rg, It, Bd, BdIt) (LP: #656647)
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* (Design) Shift Bold Italic accent glyphs to be consistent with the
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Italic. (BdIt only) DM (LP: #677449)
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* (Design) Check spacing and kerning of dcaron, lcaron and
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tcaron. (Rg, It, Bd, BdIt) (LP: #664722)
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* (Design) Add positive kerning to () {} [] to open out the
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combinations so they are less like a closed box. (Rg, It, Bd,
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BdIt) (LP: #671228)
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* (Design) Change design of acute.asc and check highest points (Bd
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and BdIt only) DM
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* (Production) Update <case> feature. DM (LP: #676538, #676539)
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* (Production) Remove Romanian locl feature. (Rg, It, Bd, BdIt)
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(LP: #635615)
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* (Production) Update Copyright information with new
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strings. "Copyright 2010 Canonical Ltd. Licensed under the Ubuntu
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Font Licence 1.0" Trademark string "Ubuntu and Canonical are
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registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd." (Rg, It, Bd, BdIt) DM
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(LP: #677450)
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* (Design) Check aligning of hyphen, math signs em, en, check braces
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and other brackets. 16/11 (LP: #676465)
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* (Production) Pixel per em indicator added at U+F000 (Rg, It, Bd,
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BdIt) (LP: #615787)
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* (Production) Version number indicator added at U+EFFD (Rg, It, Bd,
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BdIt) (LP: #640623)
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* (Production) fstype bit set to 0 - Editable (Rg, It, Bd, BdIt)
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(LP: #648406)
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2010-10-05 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.69
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[Dalton Maag]
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* Italic,
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- Hinting on lowercase Italic l amended 19ppm (LP: #632451)
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- Hinting on lowercase Italic u amended 12ppm (LP: #626376)
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* Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic
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- New Rupee Sign added @ U+20B9 (LP: #645987)
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- Ubuntu Roundel added @ U+E0FF (LP: #651606)
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[Paul Sladen]
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* All
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- Removed "!ubu" GSUB.calt ligature for U+E0FF (LP: #651606)
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Acknowledgements
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If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E),
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web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in
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alphabetical order.
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N: Ryan Abdullah
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W: http://www.rayan.de/
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D: Arabic calligraphy and design in collaboration with Dalton Maag
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D: Arabic testing
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N: Cody Boisclair
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D: Monospace low-level debugging and patching ('fixboxdrawing-ft.py')
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N: Amélie Bonet
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W: http://ameliebonet.com/
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D: Type design with Dalton Maag, particularly Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed
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N: Jason Campbell
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W: http://www.campbellgraphics.com/design/fonts.shtml
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D: Monospace hinting (first phase) at Dalton Maag
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N: Pilar Cano
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W: http://www.pilarcano.com/
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D: Hebrew realisation with Dalton Maag
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N: Fernando Caro
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D: Type design with Dalton Maag, particularly Ubuntu Condensed
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N: Ron Carpenter
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Type design with Dalton Maag
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D: Arabic realisation in collaboration with Ryan Abdullah
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N: Vincent Connare
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W: http://www.connare.com/
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D: Type design, and engineering with Dalton Maag
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D: Monospace hinting (second phase) at Dalton Maag
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N: Dave Crossland
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E: dave@understandingfonts.com
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W: http://understandingfonts.com/
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D: Documentation and libre licensing guidance
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D: Google Webfont integration at Google
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N: Steve Edwards
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W: http://www.madebymake.com/
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D: font.ubuntu.com revamp implementation with Canonical Web Team
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N: Iain Farrell
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W: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iain
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D: Ubuntu Font Family delivery for the Ubuntu UX team at Canonical
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N: Marc Foley
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W: http://www.marcfoley.co/
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D: Font Engineer at Dalton Maag for the 2015 updates
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N: Shiraaz Gabru
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Ubuntu Font Family project management at Dalton Maag
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N: Marcus Haslam
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W: http://design.canonical.com/author/marcus-haslam/
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D: Creative inspiration
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N: Ben Laenen
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D: Inspiration behind the pixels-per-em (PPEM) readout debugging glyph at U+F000
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(for this font the concept was re-implemented from scratch by Dalton-Maag)
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N: Bruno Maag
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Stylistic direction of the Ubuntu Font Family, as head of Dalton Maag
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N: Ivanka Majic
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W: http://www.ivankamajic.com/
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D: Guiding the UX team and Cyrillic feedback
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N: David Marshall
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Technical guidance and administration at Dalton Maag
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N: Malcolm Wooden
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Font Engineering at Dalton Maag
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N: Lukas Paltram
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W: http://www.daltonmaag.com/
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D: Type design with Dalton Maag
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N: Júlio Reis
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D: Date fixes to the documentation
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N: Rodrigo Rivas
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D: Indian Rupee Sign glyph
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N: Mark Shuttleworth
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E: mark@ubuntu.com
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W: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/
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D: Executive quality-control and funding
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N: Paul Sladen
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E: ubuntu@paul.sladen.org
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W: http://www.paul.sladen.org/
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D: Bug triaging, packaging at Ubuntu and Canonical
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N: Nicolas Spalinger
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W: http://planet.open-fonts.org
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D: Continuous guidance on libre/open font licensing, best practises in source
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tree layout, release and packaging (pkg-fonts Debian team)
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N: Kenneth Wimer
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D: Initial PPA packaging
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* Canonical Ltd is the primary commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu and
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Kubuntu operating systems
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* Dalton Maag are a custom type foundry headed by Bruno Maag
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For further documentation, information on contributors, source code
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downloads and those involved with the Ubuntu Font Family, visit:
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http://font.ubuntu.com/
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Ubuntu Font Family Licensing FAQ
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Stylistic Foundations
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The Ubuntu Font Family is the first time that a libre typeface has been
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designed professionally and explicitly with the intent of developing a
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public and long-term community-based development process.
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When developing an open project, it is generally necessary to have firm
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foundations: a font needs to maintain harmony within itself even across
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many type designers and writing systems. For the [1]Ubuntu Font Family,
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the process has been guided with the type foundry Dalton Maag setting
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the project up with firm stylistic foundation covering several
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left-to-right scripts: Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; and right-to-left
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scripts: Arabic and Hebrew (due in 2011).
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With this starting point the community will, under the supervision of
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[2]Canonical and [3]Dalton Maag, be able to build on the existing font
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sources to expand their character coverage. Ultimately everybody will
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be able to use the Ubuntu Font Family in their own written languages
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across the whole of Unicode (and this will take some time!).
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Licensing
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The licence chosen by any free software project is one of the
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foundational decisions that sets out how derivatives and contributions
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can occur, and in turn what kind of community will form around the
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project.
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Using a licence that is compatible with other popular licences is a
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powerful constraint because of the [4]network effects: the freedom to
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share improvements between projects allows free software to reach
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high-quality over time. Licence-proliferation leads to many
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incompatible licences, undermining the network effect, the freedom to
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share and ultimately making the libre movement that Ubuntu is a part of
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less effective. For all kinds of software, writing a new licence is not
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to be taken lightly and is a choice that needs to be thoroughly
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justified if this path is taken.
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Today it is not clear to Canonical what the best licence for a font
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project like the Ubuntu Font Family is: one that starts life designed
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by professionals and continues with the full range of community
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development, from highly commercial work in new directions to curious
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beginners' experimental contributions. The fast and steady pace of the
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Ubuntu release cycle means that an interim libre licence has been
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necessary to enable the consideration of the font family as part of
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Ubuntu 10.10 operating system release.
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Before taking any decision on licensing, Canonical as sponsor and
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backer of the project has reviewed the many existing licenses used for
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libre/open fonts and engaged the stewards of the most popular licenses
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in detailed discussions. The current interim licence is the first step
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in progressing the state-of-the-art in licensing for libre/open font
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development.
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The public discussion must now involve everyone in the (comparatively
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new) area of the libre/open font community; including font users,
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software freedom advocates, open source supporters and existing libre
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font developers. Most importantly, the minds and wishes of professional
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type designers considering entering the free software business
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community must be taken on board.
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Conversations and discussion has taken place, privately, with
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individuals from the following groups (generally speaking personally on
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behalf of themselves, rather than their affiliations):
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* [5]SIL International
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* [6]Open Font Library
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* [7]Software Freedom Law Center
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* [8]Google Font API
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Document embedding
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One issue highlighted early on in the survey of existing font licences
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is that of document embedding. Almost all font licences, both free and
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unfree, permit embedding a font into a document to a certain degree.
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Embedding a font with other works that make up a document creates a
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"combined work" and copyleft would normally require the whole document
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to be distributed under the terms of the font licence. As beautiful as
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the font might be, such a licence makes a font too restrictive for
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useful general purpose digital publishing.
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The situation is not entirely unique to fonts and is encountered also
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with tools such as GNU Bison: a vanilla GNU GPL licence would require
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anything generated with Bison to be made available under the terms of
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the GPL as well. To avoid this, Bison is [9]published with an
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additional permission to the GPL which allows the output of Bison to be
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made available under any licence.
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The conflict between licensing of fonts and licensing of documents, is
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addressed in two popular libre font licences, the SIL OFL and GNU GPL:
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* [10]SIL Open Font Licence: When OFL fonts are embedded in a
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document, the OFL's terms do not apply to that document. (See
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[11]OFL-FAQ for details.
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* [12]GPL Font Exception: The situation is resolved by granting an
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additional permission to allow documents to not be covered by the
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GPL. (The exception is being reviewed).
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The Ubuntu Font Family must also resolve this conflict, ensuring that
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if the font is embedded and then extracted it is once again clearly
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under the terms of its libre licence.
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Long-term licensing
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Those individuals involved, especially from Ubuntu and Canonical, are
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interested in finding a long-term libre licence that finds broad favour
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across the whole libre/open font community. The deliberation during the
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past months has been on how to licence the Ubuntu Font Family in the
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short-term, while knowingly encouraging everyone to pursue a long-term
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goal.
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* [13]Copyright assignment will be required so that the Ubuntu Font
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Family's licensing can be progressively expanded to one (or more)
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licences, as best practice continues to evolve within the
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libre/open font community.
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* Canonical will support and fund legal work on libre font licensing.
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It is recognised that the cost and time commitments required are
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likely to be significant. We invite other capable parties to join
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in supporting this activity.
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The GPL version 3 (GPLv3) will be used for Ubuntu Font Family build
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scripts and the CC-BY-SA for associated documentation and non-font
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content: all items which do not end up embedded in general works and
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documents.
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Ubuntu Font Licence
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For the short-term only, the initial licence is the [14]Ubuntu Font
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|
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License (UFL). This is loosely inspired from the work on the SIL
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|
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OFL 1.1, and seeks to clarify the issues that arose during discussions
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|
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and legal review, from the perspective of the backers, Canonical Ltd.
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|
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Those already using established licensing models such as the GPL, OFL
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|
||||||
or Creative Commons licensing should have no worries about continuing
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|
||||||
to use them. The Ubuntu Font Licence (UFL) and the SIL Open Font
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|
||||||
Licence (SIL OFL) are not identical and should not be confused with
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|
||||||
each other. Please read the terms precisely. The UFL is only intended
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|
||||||
as an interim license, and the overriding aim is to support the
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|
||||||
creation of a more suitable and generic libre font licence. As soon as
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|
||||||
such a licence is developed, the Ubuntu Font Family will migrate to
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|
||||||
it—made possible by copyright assignment in the interium. Between the
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|
||||||
OFL 1.1, and the UFL 1.0, the following changes are made to produce the
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|
||||||
Ubuntu Font Licence:
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|
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* Clarification:
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|
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|
||||||
1. Document embedding (see [15]embedding section above).
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|
||||||
2. Apply at point of distribution, instead of receipt
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|
||||||
3. Author vs. copyright holder disambiguation (type designers are
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|
||||||
authors, with the copyright holder normally being the funder)
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|
||||||
4. Define "Propagate" (for internationalisation, similar to the GPLv3)
|
|
||||||
5. Define "Substantially Changed"
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|
||||||
6. Trademarks are explicitly not transferred
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|
||||||
7. Refine renaming requirement
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Streamlining:
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|
||||||
8. Remove "not to be sold separately" clause
|
|
||||||
9. Remove "Reserved Font Name(s)" declaration
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
A visual demonstration of how these points were implemented can be
|
|
||||||
found in the accompanying coloured diff between SIL OFL 1.1 and the
|
|
||||||
Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0: [16]ofl-1.1-ufl-1.0.diff.html
|
|
||||||
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|
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References
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|
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|
||||||
1. http://font.ubuntu.com/
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|
||||||
2. http://www.canonical.com/
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|
||||||
3. http://www.daltonmaag.com/
|
|
||||||
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
|
|
||||||
5. http://scripts.sil.org/
|
|
||||||
6. http://openfontlibrary.org/
|
|
||||||
7. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
|
|
||||||
8. http://code.google.com/webfonts
|
|
||||||
9. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF
|
|
||||||
10. http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_web
|
|
||||||
11. http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web
|
|
||||||
12. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
|
|
||||||
13. https://launchpad.net/~uff-contributors
|
|
||||||
14. http://font.ubuntu.com/ufl/ubuntu-font-licence-1.0.txt
|
|
||||||
15. http://font.ubuntu.com/ufl/FAQ.html#embedding
|
|
||||||
16. http://font.ubuntu.com/ufl/ofl-1.1-ufl-1.0.diff.html
|
|
||||||
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
|
|||||||
----------------------
|
|
||||||
Ubuntu Font Family
|
|
||||||
======================
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in
|
|
||||||
development during 2010--2011. And with further expansion work and
|
|
||||||
bug fixing during 2015. The development is being funded by
|
|
||||||
Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the
|
|
||||||
Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is
|
|
||||||
being undertaken by Dalton Maag.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used
|
|
||||||
to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and
|
|
||||||
you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
http://font.ubuntu.com/
|
|
||||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user