The point i was making is, there is no need to change font from any previous releases of ubuntu. I was just using SimSun as an example, maybe a really bad one, sorry. Anyways, I would just say stick with the Arphic UMing, as Wenzhuo said. I mean we do want to make improvement to it. There is a reason that the SimSun font is a successful font, because people simply like it. The closest we can get to is the Arphic Uming, then let's use it. What we should do is to improve the Arphic font, not to create a new font and put it in a LTS release. I know the font is great work, and it's open sourced. But i think we have time to perfect it, a LTS release should not contain anything that is not tested enough, the same reason that Kubuntu with KDE4 is not going to be LTS.
Boning Chen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM, fangq <
fangqq@gmail.com> wrote:
Copyright issue is certainly the key if you are talking about SimSun
(known as Song Ti on windows 9x - 2000). SimSun was developed by Beijing
ZhongYi Inc, M$ bought the license to use this font on their windows
product (SimSun18030 and YaHei now licensed by Founder). It is neither
open-source, nor free (as beer), and the license fee is HUGE.
If Zhongyi had released SimSun under any type of open license, nobody
would have spend years of his/her time to make a font of his/her own.
Furthermore, I doubt any of these Chinese font companies would open-
source their fonts (at least in the near future) as Arphic did, because
they used to get huge profit from this.
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