Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:31:31 +0000
> "Matt Sturgeon" <mttza1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> will all these fonts be included in the next release of GRUB 2?
> 
> Probably not; the licenses may not be compatible with GPLv3.  These
> fonts are ones that came with X.Org on my system, and I just exported
> them to BDF files with 'xmbdfed' and then converted the BDF files to
> PF2 files with the GRUB font converter.
> 
> Some of the fonts I used during my development of the graphical menu
> system are from the "Artwiz" bitmap font collection, which is a set of
> several fonts, but most all quite small in size (really no selection of
> font size within a font).
> 
> I haven't spent a lot of time seeking out good free fonts that we could
> include in GRUB.  I use the fabulous Liberation TrueType fonts on my
> desktop, but these are outline fonts, not bitmap fonts.  I tried
> creating a bitmap font from some decent TrueType outline fonts using
> xmbdfed, but the results were quite ugly, so I gave up on that.

Font issue is actually a bit problematic. At least there has to be some
font somewhere that we can give to users so they can actually use
graphical terminal :)

Are there any free fonts that we can use ?