So, it sounds reasonable to use that license for fonts needed in the WebKit project.
If nobody has objections, an update of the WebKit licensing policy and a review of the patch [1] including fonts under that license (for MathML) would be great! François Sausset [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41961 Le 16 juil. 2010 à 18:05, Eric Seidel a écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
