On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> 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.