Misleading description of fonts entries
Bug #666539 reported by
Nicolas Spalinger
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
The software centre has a Fonts section but entries in that section indicate they are "free": please do not use this term as it has strongly negative connotation in the typeface design community and corresponds to maybe-distribut
[This report previously also asked for display of more specific license information, which is already covered by bug 435183.]
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Hi Nicolas, and thanks for all your work on fonts.
Because some items in Ubuntu Software Center (and in equivalent utilities on other platforms) have a price, USC needs to be clear about all those that do not. In English, we do this by saying that they are "Free". I don't know of any other way of doing that that wouldn't look either pretentious (e.g. "Gratis"), primitive (e.g. "Price: $0.00"), or pedestrian (e.g. "No charge").
If zero-price fonts have a stigma in the typeface design community, I think that stigma can more effectively be tackled by organizations like SIL and the League of Movable Type than by a puny software installation utility. :-)
We would like to be more specific about the license. That's bug 435183, so I'm marking this as a duplicate. Please reopen if I've missed anything.