Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: software-center
The software centre has a Fonts section but entries in that section
indicate they are "free": please do not use this term as it has strongly
negative connotation in the typeface design community and corresponds to
maybe-distribute-but-don't-modify-fonts usually of low quality. Open
fonts (or libre/open fonts) is much much preferred and corresponds to
font software allowing use/study/modification/redistribution.
The license label of each entry does not show the specific licensing terms the
particular font is released under by upstream.
Please show the explicit font license chosen by author because different
licenses have different requirements on the end-user: especially with issues
concerning embedding.
Various fonts we package and maintain in our upstream Debian pkg-fonts
team now have DEP-5 copyright metadata (or are on track to include it
soon). Please make use of that information.
** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Improve misleading description of fonts entries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666539
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