Hey, I'm currently packaging up Aurulent Sans. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hartke_Aurulent_fonts ) At the moment there are only some compiled *.otf files available. Because of this I asked the author for sources to compile from. But the answer is going a bit over my current horizon. The answer I got an the question if it would be possible to provide some sources is: This is a tricky issue, for a couple of reasons: First, the font is created with MetaType1. This is not particularly easy to install or setup. Will you be able to do that? Since my hard drive crashed over the summer, I lost some of the changes that I had made to MetaType1 so that it would run in Fedora (mainly shell scripts and the like). At the moment, I cannot compile the sources. Second, I have ceased work on the MetaType1 version of Aurulent Sans. I am re-creating the font using Python scripting in FontForge, and I think this is a more promising approach. However, I don't have much time to spend on it, so this is definitely a long term project. Third, it's not clear what license the source files should be released under. Since they are code, it seems that the GPL would be appropriate, not the OFL. However, it's not clear what the effect of using the GPL would be; certainly I'd want people to be able to directly modify and redistribute the "binary" font file. So I don't have some experience with font building and need some hints here. Also I don't have a clear answer on the licensing question. Regards, Paul
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