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Re: X11 Update Fonts Crash OpenOffice.org



Hi,

as Jim Watson described in his mail, at least some files are corrupted in
Apple X11 update.

Particularly Vera.ttf.

This file is covered by BitStream font license:

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts

This license contains:

   > The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in
   > particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be
   > modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the
   > Fonts, only if the fonts are renamed to names not containing either
   > the words “Bitstream” or the word “Vera”.

So Apple is now violating the license of these fonts. I expect an update to
this *very soon* and it should not matter if Leopard is scheduled to be
released soon!
-- 
Pavel Janík

Currently there is not much of a documentation (and that's an euphemism)"
                  -- Philipp Lohmann in openoffice.dev about OOo's GSL
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