Re: FIGlet fonts

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Hello!

I'm kinda reviving a discussion from the dead, but it's been since January and pyfiglet is still blocked with its review despite new versions of the package being licensing-trouble free as they only include the fonts which are Open Source and safe to include thanks to the great amount of work of upstream. And so, we'd like to go ahead with this to finally include pyfiglet into Fedora.

So, without focusing on the legal argument, I wanted to ask here what was the procedure for going back with a dead review due to legal issues. Can I for example just "remove" the FE-LEGAL tag or do I need some sort of re-review/approval from legal?

Greetings,
Lyes Saadi

Le 19/01/2022 à 14:35, Lyes Saadi a écrit :
Hi!

Le 19/01/2022 à 04:16, Jilayne Lovejoy a écrit :
Hi Lyes!

On 1/14/22 5:19 PM, Lyes Saadi wrote:

Hello! And thank you for your answer!

well, I'm not sure I really have an answer  - still trying to make sure I understand the question!

[...]
>> We'd love to have all the fonts included if our legal argument is
solid enough, though, since there is no precedent in US courts (as far as we know, we are no lawyers), I can understand why it is an issue for the Fedora Project. But, yes, all the fonts which are now included are in the « good » license list.


So the specific ask for Fedora now is - can we include the fonts in the fonts-contrib/ directory as well, instead of only the fonts in the fonts-standard/ directory - is that right?

Yes, that's what we're trying to do. (Also, removing the FE-LEGAL tag from the review request for now, since only fonts-standard is included anyway. I'm not sure that I'm allowed to do that directly.)

I'm not really clear on what the licensing is for the font in the fonts-contrib/ directory, as the few fonts I opened simply don't have any explicit license info. Do you know if that is the case (and therefore the problem in terms of redistribution in Fedora)?

Yes, these files are proprietary and/or have an unknown origin. If we follow the licensing guidelines for normal (Vector) fonts, it would be impossible to redistribute them in Fedora.

But, our argument is that all these files should be "insufficiently creative" to be considered copyrightable in the first place (in the US, at least), in the same way that Bitmap fonts are not copyrightable. So, it wouldn't matter what their license is, they would just be under Public Domain.

Thanks,
Jilayne

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