A little web searching produced: It's OSI approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/openfont.html
GNU thinks it's OK, albeit having an "unusual requirement": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fonts Fedora recommended: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Font_Licenses It would appear to be "the font license". -eric On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Alex Milowski <a...@milowski.org> wrote: > We have a licensing issue we need to address for MathML. We need the STIX > fonts as they will provide consistent rendering for Mathematics. I highly > suspect these fonts will find themselves on our desktops somewhere down > the road. Meanwhile, we need them for our testing infrastructure to > actually work across all the platforms. > > The STIX Fonts are available under the SIL Open Font License: > > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL_web > > You can see the patch that adds these fonts here: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41961 > > I think we need to adjust our licensing policy to include font licenses > like the above. It is unlikely that the STIX consortium will change their > font licensing. In reality, they don't need to do so. The font license is > intended to support "open source" fonts. > > -- > --Alex Milowski > "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the > inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language > considered." > > Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev