Hi, On 03/13/2011 06:01 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > glob2 includes a single ttf file that I can probably replace with a symlink to > dejavu sans. Based on a an upstream discussion about an aborted switch to a > nonfree font, I suspect the font is free, but is there some way to check? What I usually do is install fontforge and then: fontforge foo.ttf Then go to the Element menu and select font info (or press ctrl+shift+f), usually you can find some more info about the origin there. > The > font name in the source is just sans.ttf which isn't very revealing. I haven't > stumbled across documentation on where the font came from yet. Is there a tool > that can report the source from the ttf file? If I can't find the source of the > font, should I strip it from the source tarball? If you cannot determine the origin of the font, yes you should strip it from the source tarbal. If you can and it is a Free font, usually I just remove the file from the package and replace it with a symlink. Unless it is a game specific Free font distributed only together with the game, in that case I create a sub package for it using the font package guidelines as usual, make the main game package require the font subpackage, and still put a symlink in the original location (as the font subpackage will have the font under /usr/share/fonts/...). See for example freeciv. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
