Re: [9fans] fonts in plan9port

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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I just did a cvs update, but I'm not pulling the new font
directories; in particular I'm not gettin lucsans.
What am I doing wrong?

Paul

On 3-Apr-06, at 9:21 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

> On 12/30/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> I would argue that distribution of the fonts with plan9port
>> counts as being with the Plan 9 Operating System, since
>> that's what plan9port is, just a port of the Plan 9 Operating System
>> software to Unix systems.
>>
>> If you pulled the fonts out and distributed them with some
>> other piece of software, that wouldn't be allowed.  But I think
>> distribution with plan9port is fine.
>
> The above argument was admittedly shaky.  With help from Rob,
> I have obtained explicit permission from Bigelow & Holmes to
> use and distribute the bitmap fonts with plan9port and to allow
> others to do the same.  This should clear up any questions of
> distributability of plan9port.
>
> As part of the agreement, I renamed the font directories to avoid
> the use of the name "Lucida".  If you have run cvs up recently, you
> will have already noticed this.  There are three effects worth
> mentioning:
>
>   - Old acme binaries, which refer to the lucidasans directory,
>     will no longer run.  To fix this, simply recompile acme.
>
>   - The fonts may be named in your acme.dump files.  If so,
>     acme -l acme.dump will fail.  To fix this, edit acme.dump and
>     ,s/lucida/luc/g.
>
>   - You may need to edit your profiles or shell scripts if you use
>     the -f or -F options to acme in scripts or shell functions.
>
> Also as part of the agreement, the PostScript versions of the fonts
> are no longer part of the distribution.  As a replacement, I have
> imported
> Luxi Sans and Deja Vu Sans, both of which were freely available.
> The typeset manual pages use Luxi Sans, but Deja Vu Sans has
> broader Unicode support.
>
> All these changes have been in the distribution for two weeks.
> http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES has a few more details.
> See the March 19, 2006 entry.
>
> Enjoy.
> Russ

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