Simos Xenitellis
2007-Feb-10 18:35 UTC
[Fontconfig] Re: [DejaVu-fonts] forming new maintenance team for MPH 2B Damase?
Hi Paul, MPH 2B Damase does not have a free and open-source license. I was wondering if the author would be flexible to relicense using a license such as OFL. This might help out in order to get a team working on the font. Simos On 2/11/07, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:> Hi all, > > [please CC me on any replies] > > MPH 2B Damase is a public domain font implementing some of the newer > parts of Unicode 4.1. A short description of it is here: > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-mph-2b-damase > > The author hasn''t had time to work on it for a long time, so I suggested > that a maintenance team could be formed in order to keep it up to date, > add more glyphs and so on. Is anyone interested in helping form such a > team and working on MPH 2B Damase? > > PS: If anyone is a regular on typophile.com and would like to post this > message there, please do. > > For those who might be interested, here is my email exchange with the > author: > > > On 06/02/07, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > I note that fixedsys.org is still not back up. Have you updated MPH > > > 2B Damase at all and placed it on a new website? If not, do you > > > think it would be a good idea to convert it to a fontforge .sfd file > > > or two, create a sourceforge or savannah project to maintain it on > > > and solicit for maintainers amongst the free fonts community? I''m > > > sure some of the people who commented on the debian package > > > inclusion would help out. Do you know if it uses any features > > > fontforge does not support? > > > > No, I haven''t updated the font (although I did intend to at one point, > > I''m pretty sure now it''s not going to happen, at least not for a few > > years) nor have I placed it on a new website. I don''t know if it uses > > any features fontforge doesn''t support -- the main issues that I would > > anticipate are how diacritics are done (I don''t remember the technical > > terms, but the way I did it, iirc, is "illegal", where each > > precomposed character actually calls upon the diacritic and the base > > character and combines them on the spot), and the use of characters > > beyond the BMP (although by now, any font editor that can''t handle > > that is essentially worthless, so I''m assuming that is not an issue > > with fontforge). > > > > You and others are welcome to do any or all of the things you > > suggested, I unfortunately do not have time right now. If nobody were > > to end up doing it, I suppose I might eventually, but unfortunately I > > am very much occupied in real life at the moment and don''t anticipate > > having much, if any, time to continue my amateur font foundring for > > the next couple of years, although I would be happy to answer any > > questions at all anyone might have about fonts or writing systems. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > DejaVu-fonts@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts > > >