Re: gEDA-user: pcb: C-in-a-circle copyright?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:26 -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> A while back I located some GPL'd sources for scalable vector fonts.  In 
> the form of C data structures (or easily converted thereto) IIRC.
> 
> Anyway... can't quite remember where I saw them, but if I dig around I 
> might find them again.  In theory, somebody could write a C program to 
> turn those into PCB stroke fonts. If somebody is interested, I will do 
> the digging.  Otherwise, since I have no time to launch a font project, 
> I'll just sleep on this little recollection.
> 
> -dave

GPL is no good really unless it has an exception for usage on the
produced boards. (We don't really want to limit people to making GPL
boards).

If you know of any programs / ways to convert vectors into some
"standard" font format Linux / others will read, I'd be interested to
hear though for gschem. (Speed rendering antialiased text will be much
better if we use Pango, and for that - we need a font if we want it look
the same).

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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