Re: Showing fonts in GNOME Software

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Hi again,

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Parag N(पराग़) <panemade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 15 October 2014 21:08, Paul Flo Williams <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I am curious about the metadata files you're adding to font packages: they
>>> all claim to be copyrighted by you, but without any licensing information.
>>
>> The licensing of the files is CC0 -- it's specified in the metadata
>> file itself. I'm happy relicencing this to any acceptable content
>> licence in any of the package if this is required.
>>
>>> I presume the licence of the font package itself isn't affected?
>>
>> I suppose really the licence field should include "CC0" -- but it
>> might be simpler just to change the metadata licence to be CC-BY (or
>> whatever the font already is) just for simplicity.
>>
>> Note: I'm only going to add metadata to ten packages as a test for
>> tomorrows metadata build.
>
>   I just read the blog post and will add appdata files to all fonts
> packages I own by this weekend in F21 and F22.
> I will keep license for appdata files as CC-BY but then I think
> license tag should also include "CC-BY".

Looks like we better should seek FPC advice on changing all such font
package license tags. I have just built
typemade-josefinsansstd-light-fonts in rawhide.

I have filed a FPC ticket https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/462 and
going to ask the same on FPC list.

Regards,
Parag
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