Hi Andre; --- On Mon, 11/14/11, Andre Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > In the process of removing the liberation fonts (they are > under GPL license, issue 118600) I stumbled upon some font > related questions. Maybe someone on this list can provide > answers. > > 1. The gentium basic fonts are under the SIL Open Font > License. This looks OK to me but I am not a > lawyer. Is this a category A, B or X license? > It is inspired on the GPL but it is conceived for fonts. It think we could treat it as weak copyleft. I guess we should ask legal but in any case it would be better to just use the system fonts. > 2. The license of the open symbol font is unclear, it only > has a copyright notice (to Oracle). Issue 89686 > complains about this. There are comments about the > intention of putting it under LGPL. But the last > comment of the issue is more than three years old and its > status is STARTED. Does anybody know more about this? > I asked for this to be included in the SGA, so it's likely to be there. > > Additional information: > I was going to remove them but opengrok noticed they are referred to here: /scp2/source/ooo/file_font_ooo.scp /officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu so my indelicate axe was not fit for the job ;). (FWIW, I think hdu@ committed the liberation fonts originally.) thanks for looking at it, Pedro.
