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LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project

We work on a TrueType font-family: Serif and Grotesk (Sans Serif)
for practical use in documents. This project aims at creating a
free alternative to the standard W*ndows Fonts (T*mes and Ar*al).
PfaEdit is used as FontEditor (see http://pfaedit.sf.net).
We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL,
(see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html).
It is our goal to create a really good font with a real italic and bold
variant, with OSF (old style figures -> old numbers) and small Caps.

We publish our fonts at http://linuxlibertine.sf.net. Though we mark builds as
milestones regularly we always recommend to download the latest release.
Milestone classification just serves to mark wider steps where a change in
the font is so grave that even a non-typograph can see it.

We are not the only project that aims at creating a GPLed TTF. But unfortunately
the other projects known to us either have
- a very strange license and ugly shape
  see Bitstream Vera, Bitstream
  http://www.gnome.org/fonts

- or the work has stopped once and has never finished (last update march 2001)
  strange, too, is that it's produced by a Japanese Lab and has no japanese
  letters included...
  efont serif, Electronic Font Open Laboratory
  http://openlab.jp/efont/serif/