Is Clear Sans a true free/libre font?

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t3g
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https://01.org/clear-sans

Does anyone know if this is considered a true free font? I know its under Apache 2.0, but sometimes a font is not considered fully open unless the font can be built with free software.

Legimet
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"Clear Sans can be freely utilized by application, browser and operating system developers. The design has not been open-sourced."

Since the source code is unavailable, it's not a free font.

Also, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736665.

Jabjabs
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Shame really, looks good.

t3g
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Yeah, but thankfully there are other free fonts that work well for the UI. I use Roboto (apt-get install fonts-roboto in Trisquel 7) for the default and window title fonts in Trisquel and Ubuntu.

Jabjabs
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I am totally on to that. :D

lembas
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Can you make a screenshotty of fonts-roboto and upload to https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-roboto (which is where Debian based distros fetch the screenshotties from.)

I don't know if there is some standard for fonts screenshots but you might want to investigate that first. Such a standard obviously would make it easier to compare fonts. Perhaps this would do also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

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t3g
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fonts-croscore in Trisquel 7 provides better fonts than fonts-liberation since Arimo, Tinos, and Cousine are based on Liberation, but also provide more language support.

Legimet
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I was just showing some examples of font screenshots because lembas suggested that you upload one.

I have never heard of fonts-croscore, I'll take a look at it.