Liberastika fonts are based on Liberation Sans family which was designed by Ascender Corp for Red Hat, Inc. The Cyrillic part of the fonts was redesigned significantly. It was lost its metric compatibility with the Arial font. This is done since the design of Cyrillic in Arial has substantial flaws so no good quality Cyrillic could be based on this metrics.
The fonts are distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2 with the following exception:
As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
The sources and truetype fonts are at http://code.google.com/p/liberastika/ Tarballs are compressed with xz (use http://tukaani.org/xz/ or multiplatform 7-Zip archiver http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ version greater than 9 for decompression).
You need fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/), xgridfit (http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net/) and font-helpers (http://code.google.com/p/font-helpers/ ) in order to build fonts from the sources. Also you should have GNU make and coreutils. At first you must unpack/copy files from font-helpers into the directory where *.sfd files are located. Then type
make
and truetype fonts will be produced. On systems with X.Org you may do
make install
as root to install fonts system-wide (/usr/share/fonts/TTF). Otherwise copy *.ttf files into ~/.fonts/ directory. Then run fc-cache if you have fontconfig.
Andrey V. Panov <panov@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>