Le Ven 26 novembre 2010 21:56, J.B. Nicholson-Owens a Ãcrit : > Looking at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HVD_Comic_Serif_fonts it seems > that Fedora considers CC BY 3.0 unported to be the only operative > license on this font. But how has Fedora determined that this > Readme.txt file can be ignored? I looked through the mailing list > archives for this list and found no discussion referring to this font. Font authors are often very confused about licensing. A large part of font packaging is straightening the licensing bits with upstream :( So this is not an isolated case. Many fonts are put on the wishlist because there seems to be some intent by upstream to put them under a liberal license. This needs to be confirmed by the packager. Usually, upstream is actually ok with the floss license, just forgot to clean up previous licensing terms from readmes or from the fonts themselves. So don't panic. There's no reason to think the restrictive bits were added after the CC-ing. You just need to check with upstream. If you don't want to deal with this part, try to package fonts from upstreams which are known to be licensing-clean (SIL fonts, Google font directory fonts, ADF fontsÂ) It will likely become better now that more and more people use the OFL. People will just copy it (like software people do with the GPL) instead of crafting terms by hand. Â the ones on this page http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/adffonts.html not the 3rd-party reworks -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
