On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mail...@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.
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