On 02/11/2011 11:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > 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. I already checked with upstream back in December, and they replied: Hi Tom, I am sorry for the confusion. I changend the License from to textfile to the CCA 3.0 but it seems i forgot to delete the conflicting parts. Thank you for your email. I will lchange this. And: You can use the HVD Comic Serif and include it in Fedora, if you want. Best regards, Hannes ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ HVD Fonts ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Hannes von DÃhren SchillerstraÃe 34 10627 Berlin/Germany T: +49 (0)173 357 93 76 hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.hvdfonts.com ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ I thought I had passed this along, but maybe I forgot. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
