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Summary: Google Droid fonts specification https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472635 Summary: Google Droid fonts specification Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: distribution AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] QAContact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Blocks: 182235,446451 Classification: Fedora Google has released for quite a long time a high-quality set of "Droid" fonts as part of the Android platform. They have a high-visibility for average users because of all the Google press barrage. The-Eula-protected Android SDK has been superseded lately by a public source repository. http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree;f=data/fonts The NOTICE file in this directory is a Fedora-friendly Apache License. However the font metadata embedded in the files claims: « This font software is the valuable property of Ascender Corporation and/or its suppliers and its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. This font software is licensed to you by Ascender Corporation for your personal or business use on up to five personal computers. You may not use this font software on more than five personal computers unless you have obtained a license from Ascender to do so. Except as specifically permitted by the license, you may not copy this font software. If you have any questions, please review the license agreement you received with this font software, and/or contact Ascender Corporation. Contact Information: Ascender Corporation Web http://www.ascendercorp.com/ » But Ascender will redirect you to Google, which is as usual silent. To check it, 1. download a raw TTF file 2. open it in Fontforge 3. -> Elements 4. -> Font Info 5. -> TTF Name 6. -> License (License URL is fun too) This has so far discouraged Fedora and Debian packaging, even though wild Droid packages have started to appear, people are incorporating Droid material in derivatives, and one of those may eventually make it in the repo without raising Legal bells. Thus I have two questions: 1. is the legal situation clear enough to allow Fedora packaging as is 2. since Google won't step down to replying to solicitations by mere mortals, can an official Fedora or Red Hat enquiry be made to clarify the situation? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
