Re: Overpass Fonts licensing

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Hi Richard and Tom!

On 6 December 2012 05:53, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In response to a well-articulated request by a developer, Red Hat is
> hereby dual-licensing Overpass Fonts[1] under the SIL Open Font
> License 1.1 (heretofore the license of the fonts) and the Apache
> License 2.0. This shall serve as a general public announcement.

Great news!

I see that the copyright notice says, "Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc.,
with Reserved Font Name OVERPASS."

Anyone serving the fonts as web fonts under the OFL will need
additional permission to distribute it with the RFN because
modifications are required in order to convert formats for wide
browser compatibility, offer subsets to reduce latency, and so on.

The Apache license doesn't have such requirements.

Therefore I personally suggest removing the RFN notice.

If 'Overpass' is considered a valuable Red Hat trademark, I'd
personally suggest declaring trademark notices alongside copyright
notices for both licenses.

Personally I don't like Apache for fonts, so I wonder if you might
explain about the thinking behind using both licenses.

Cheers
Dave
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