On 11 July 2012 18:55, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:

> On 07/11/2012 02:58 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 07/11/2012 08:51 AM, pravin.d.s@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I have completed initial work. Yet not able to solve
>>> LiberationSansNarrow
>>> licensing stuff might be it will take some more time
>>
>> Most people reading devel probably don't know what the
>> LiberationSansNarrow
>> licensing problem is.
>
> The problem is that particular variant was donated by Oracle under the
> Liberation license and Google croscore doesn't have that variant either.
>  So we are basically struck with it for now.

And Oracle did it because they wanted an Arial Narrow replacement for
OpenOffice.org, so I doubt they'll participate in any relicensing now that
they got rid of this product line (I'd be delighted to be proven wrong!)

It sucks but that means for now the project should probably be split in
two: Liberation v2 with OFL license gased on Google files, and v1 keeping
only Narrows with the old Liberation License

Yes, that is the present plan.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute