On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 17:07, Robert Marcano a écrit : >> Fonts has licenses, some of them require the license to be shown or the >> copyright displayed, some fonts has the copyright added to their >> metadata, I don't find for example that gnu-free-serif-fonts says on >> it's metadata that is GPL+3 with exceptions. On the contrary, /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerif.ttf does contain the usual "This is free software, you may distribute it under the GNU GPL..." block in the name table. > I'd say that when a font requires some communication of licensing > downstream, but forgets to put its own license in the font metadata, > that's an upstream problem. Upstream can not complain Fedora didn't work > hard enough about something it didn't do itself. Honestly, I'd prefer that we fixed this in Fedora. It solves this problem quite nicely, and I don't really think it's that widespread an issue anyway. (I'm going to run a script to check soon; I'm downloading 300MB worth of fonts right now. ;-) AFAICS it shouldn't be too hard to script up something so this would as easy as `fixfontmd --copyright "$(head -n3 LICENSE)" --licensedesc "$(cat LICENSE)" --licenseurl "http://example.com/LICENSE"` for packagers. I'd be happy to add a guideline for this and fix up existing packages if this seems amenable. -T.C. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
