[ubuntu-art] Droid Sans

[Ricardo Mariano III]

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:57 -0800, Brian wrote:
> Droid Sans has been discussed but I think there was a reason for not
> using it. Something about it's hinting and small sizes I think. -Cory
> K.
> 
> 
> I haven't heard anything about it since the license change, most
> people were just against it because it hadn't been open sourced yet.
> The first thing I do on any Ubuntu desktop is change the font to Droid
> Sans, it looks way clearer and better.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
There were other points against it. The Wikipedia article on the font
says:

	When originally released, the droid font was accompanied by an apache
license, but the EULA field in the font header stated the standard,
closed, Ascender Eula, this was fixed[3] on December 9th, 2008 to
reflect the proper apache license which most of Android uses for its
release.

I guess the fonts have an Apache license, then, which makes it
DFSG-compatible, and OK for use in Ubuntu. 

-Kido