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James H. Cloos Jr. <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: (LGPL is still a possibility.)

(Per other comments above, one component may need to be released under X11 in 
addition to the GPLv2 (or LGPL if
that route is chosen).)

Package: JHCfonts
System name: jhcfonts
Type: 2

Description:
This project will provide an integrated family of free fonts.  Glyph coverage 
is intended to be as much of 10646 as possible.  Like B&H\'s Lucida family, the 
goal is for all the variations to work well together.  Both on-screen 
legibility and quality reproduction on inkjet and laser printers are targeted.  
Fitness for offset and similar printing technologies would be an added bonus.

Metafont source will be used as the src format; this will be rendered
by mf to bitmaps, converted to splines by autotrace, and rendered by pfaedit 
into t1, ttf and otf formats.

I expect to use GPL, with the expectation that most people will get the fonts 
in \'compiled\' form with a pointer to this project both w/in the font and in 
its associated README file for the src.  LGPL is however also a possibility at 
this stage.

Any additional utilities needed to realise this project will be released under 
GPL with the expectation that they\'ll be moved into a project of their own 
here should they be of more general usefulness.

It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.


Other Software Required:
metafont, autotrace.sf.net, pfaedit.sf.net, possibly fonttools.sf.net for 
touching up ttf and otf files.

Other Comments:
I intend to offer one specific font (in regular, bold, oblique and bold-oblique 
forms) from this family to Xfree86 a/o X.org; inclusion of that one font in 
either project will probably require said font be licenced under the MIT X11 
licence.

I\'d prefer to include that font in this project, but if that would be a reason 
to reject the project I\'ll keep it separate.

I should also note that I am aware of the freefonts project here; I envision 
this project as complementary to that one, not competition for it.