Hi All fonts comes from a project call Bitstream Vera Fonts if I rember right from my head and they are free to use. devjuv fonts comes from begin threre from as well. But we can not use them in offcial release for some smaller bugs. example cmd and some other part of reactos. We have talk to change to devjuv fonts for it support more uncode charters that current fonts does
----- Original Message ----- From: "theUser BL" theuserbl@hotmail.com To: ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: den 2 March 2006 13:24 Subject: [ros-dev] Audit for non-code things?
I have tried out the SVN-Snapshot of ROS 3.0 by EmuandCo: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1741#14146
At first, I want to say, that the ReactOS-Explorer looks a lot of nicer.
And
some bugs are fixed. Nice work.
Then I have looked at the program-icons. sol.exe and winefile.exe seems to use icons from old Windows-Versions (Windows 3.x/95/98/NT4). And with taskmgr.exe I am not sure, if the icon is from Windows or at own designed. All three programs comming from WINE and not from ReactOS. But is legal to using it?
More woders me the new ReactOS Notepad. If you click on Help -> About, then there opens a window where stands: Icon borrowed from Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
But Notepad2 have borrowed it from Microsofts WindowsXP Notepad. It is funny to see, how the original creater of the icon, isn't named -
but
instead of it, an other one is named. But the program notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/) is OpenSource (GPL) and thats icon you could be used.
After that, I looked with Microsofts fontview.exe (the program is part of every MS-Windows) in the text inside the fonts of ROS. There are copyrighted fonts by Adobe, Bitstream, IBM, Sun and Transgaming. And there are some Bitstream fonts in which stands: Copyright 1990 as an unpublished work by Bitstream Inc. All rights
reserved.
Confidential.
Confidential? Unpublished? From where comes then the fonts? The fonts in which this stand are c0419bt_.ttf, c0582bt_.ttf, c0583bt_.ttf, c0611bt_.ttf, c0632bt_.ttf, c0633bt_.ttf, c0648bt_.ttf and c0649bt_.ttf. Ok, the Copyright is from 1990 (for 16 years!), but is it legal to use
this
fonts?
Instead you could use the following fonts: http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium...
Greatings theuserbl
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