Hello,
Thank you so much for taking care of this :D!
And, yes, the FE-LEGAL block was removed!
Thank you!
Lyes Saadi
Le 26/07/2022 à 06:15, Richard Fontana a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 8:59 PM Lyes Saadi <ml(a)lyes.eu> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> If I'm not mistaken I have just removed the FE-Legal block.
>
> Richard
>
>> 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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