Re: pt-cyrillic-ttf license

Joerg Sonnenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:05:51PM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> I'm concerned about licensing questions regarding [recently added]
> wip/pt-cyrillic-ttf package. Distfiles (font files) are distributed
> under ParaType Open License, which is a) not in pkgsrc, and
> b) available in Russian only.
> 
> What would be a good approach to get the package in shape?

You could start by asking the authors if they could pick an existing
license instead. A good start would be SIL's Open Font License or the
license Bitstream is using for Vera.

Joerg

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