fonts November 2010

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HVD Comic Serif Pro: licensing confusion
by J.B. Nicholson-Owens 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

I found HVD Comic Serif Pro on the wish list of fonts to be reviewed and packaged for inclusion into Fedora GNU/Linux. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HVD_Comic_Serif_fonts I downloaded a copy of the font archive file -- http://hvdfonts.com/assets/Document/15/HVD_Comic_Serif_Pro.zip -- and I read the Readme.txt file therein. That Readme.txt file includes terms which conflict with the license: > This typeface may not be modified in any way unless it contains an > unmodified copy of this text file and attributes Hannes von Döhren in > the font metadata. and > Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, > in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Original or > Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed > and/or sold with any software, provided that each copycontains the > above copyright notice and this license conflict with portions of the license (for the font, I can only guess) which is listed as: > LICENSE: > "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 > Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative > Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, > USA." The top two passages I quoted above seem to me to be licensing terms. And these terms conflict with CC BY 3.0 unported: - there is no requirement in this CC license which requires a licensor to include "an unmodified copy of this text file" - there are no restrictions in this CC license against distributing copies of this font alone for a fee - attribution in accordance with this CC license can be achieved without including this Readme.txt file (one could, for example, include no such file and list changes elsewhere, or include a different readme.txt file which gives Hannes von Döhren credit and list changes in that different file) - this CC license says it is the only set of terms for licensing this work under this CC license (sections 4a and 8e). My reading of these sections say that any other terms (such as those listed in the Readme.txt file) do not have to be followed. Looking at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HVD_Comic_Serif_fonts it seems that Fedora considers CC BY 3.0 unported to be the only operative license on this font. But how has Fedora determined that this Readme.txt file can be ignored? I looked through the mailing list archives for this list and found no discussion referring to this font. Has anyone contacted Hannes von Döhren about this? Thanks.

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texlive fonts
by Bob Tennent 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

The texlive packages that Jindrich Novy has been working on install TeX-related fonts under /usr/share/fonts with symbolic links to them from the texmf tree. Is this policy mandated by Fedora? Here's the problem: with a full texlive installation, one gets hundreds of texlive-XYZ sub-directories and thousands of font files. There's very little likelihood of any of these being used by any non-TeX application, yet every use of, say, ps2pdf, is significantly delayed by having to search through all of these directories and fonts. I'd prefer that *none* of the texlive-XYZ-fonts files were installed under /usr/share/fonts but the installation policy prevents me from just doing sudo rm -rf /usr/share/fonts/texlive-* I've resorted to re-building the ghostscript packages so that /usr/share/fonts *isn't* in the default search path. Would it be feasible to install the files in the texmf tree with symbolic links from /usr/share/fonts? Then a user could remove the links from /usr/share/fonts if they didn't want them. Bob T.

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kanotf-fonts looking for review.
by susmit shannigrahi 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hello All, kanotf-fonts[1] are packaged and submitted. It is currently waiting for review[2]. Thanks for your help. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Brahmi_fonts [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652778 -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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abattis-cantarell-fonts looking for review
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

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