On 3 October 2015 at 03:57, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 02.10.2015, 07:27 -0600 schrieb Dave Crossland: > >> The official name is the rfn name; that's why the maintainer reserved > >> the name. The distros need to rename or get permission. Same as > >> Firefox. > > > > So, I am currently rebuilding the Cantarell fonts from the provided > > .sfd sources for the fonts-cantarell Debian package without renaming > > the font. Am I thus violating its license? > > According to the Debian copyright information, there is no RFN > (reserved font name) so I don't think so. > > > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/f/fonts-cantarell/unstable_copyright
Correct; I don't think RFN is a good idea; I think trademarks is sufficient for those who want name control. There are essentially 2 versions of the OFL, with and without RFN.
