Hi Pedro,
On 14.11.2011 15:33, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
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.
Yes, it is in, I just checked. Thank you very much for having this
included.
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 ;).
Then it looks like that I have to sharpen mine :)
(FWIW, I think hdu@ committed the liberation fonts
originally.)
I think he fixed the metric files to better work with the Arial Narrow
font. But still, he will be sad, that they have to go.
Regards,
Andre
thanks for looking at it,
Pedro.
