On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 09:32:04PM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 08:53:29AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > These fonts are based on "croscore fonts". They're licensed under the
> > SIL OFL v1.1: https://opensource.org/licenses/OFL-1.1
> >
> > The restriction on font names is a common restriction for fonts.
> > It is otherwise a copyleft-ish license. If you modify it, you must
> > change the name and use the same license.
> >
> > I'd like to discuss this mostly because it is a new license.
>
> There are older versions under the apache-2 license (because these
> fonts were included with android, basically). I'm not sure what
> the differences are. I'm also not certain apache2 is better or worse
> than OFL, it has more of a "too many words" problem and more conditions.
> OFL is fairly understandable and simple, honestly.
>
It seems to be an entirely different set of fonts. I've never tried it.
> > The diff for adding them: http://coypu.sdf.org/liberation.diff
>
> AFAIK share/doc is a more common convention than share/docs
> (or at least, that's what pkgsrc commonly uses).
joerg@ pointed out that the TTF files already include the license, which
is even simpler. That should make the diff really small.
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