Re: License for Molot fonts

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On 21/08/16 07:30 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 04:25:56PM -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>> Hi Ivan,
>> Would you provide the zip version for Molot fonts?
>> Fedora does not use rar files by default due to licensing issue:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar
>>
>> You can also include the metainfo.xml I provided you which will be
>> useful for easy installation.
>>
>> P.S.: I ccd to the Fedora Fonts Special Interest Group should you look
>> for further information.
> It would be best if the fonts were repacked with a different compressor.
> Especially that newer compressors get much better compression ratios.
> Nevertheless, this does not stop you from packaging them for Fedora:
> you just have to unpack and repack them yourself, and upload the
> repacked tarball as your sources.
>
> Zbysek
>

Would you list which compressor suits well to font packaging?
Zip is fairly common as far as I know and cross-platform. Should new
compressors are better, it will be nice
to document them so future font packagers will provide the right formation.

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