Bug#1128206: cardo: no source available

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:55 AM Bastian Germann <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be more specific about the RFN: Have a look at this Debian package's
> copyright file or the https://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html website.
>
> Yes, the googlefonts version does not have it and that is why I suggest
> they are probably violating the license.


So, from further reading in the thread, it sounds like you're suggesting
not that Google Fonts merely redistributed an RFN-covered font binary with
a functional difference (which would be an RFN violation), but that
somebody at Google Fonts actually altered the text of the license. That's a
considerably more egregious offense.

The more plausible explanation is that Google Fonts asked him to remove the
RFN clause as a condition for including it in Google Fonts. That's
consistently been the standard procedure, and back in 2010 Google Fonts was
not doing the whole rebuild-from-source in CI process.

I haven't been able to find a Wayback Machine link (yet) that first links
to a downloadable binary from the Google Fonts site for comparison. But
considering that Cardo was one of the very first 10-12 fonts on the
service, that's a lot of searching. It might be faster just to ask Google
Fonts people.

Nate
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