On 02/11/2011 11:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Ven 26 novembre 2010 21:56, J.B. Nicholson-Owens a écrit :
> 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.
Font authors are often very confused about licensing. A large part of font
packaging is straightening the licensing bits with upstream :( So this is not
an isolated case. Many fonts are put on the wishlist because there seems to be
some intent by upstream to put them under a liberal license. This needs to be
confirmed by the packager. Usually, upstream is actually ok with the floss
license, just forgot to clean up previous licensing terms from readmes or from
the fonts themselves.
So don't panic. There's no reason to think the restrictive bits were added
after the CC-ing. You just need to check with upstream.
I already checked with upstream back in December, and they replied:
Hi Tom,
I am sorry for the confusion.
I changend the License from to textfile to the CCA 3.0
but it seems i forgot to delete the conflicting parts.
Thank you for your email. I will lchange this.
And: You can use the HVD Comic Serif and include it in Fedora, if you want.
Best regards,
Hannes
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Hannes von Döhren
Schillerstraße 34
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T: +49 (0)173 357 93 76
hannes(a)hvdfonts.com
www.hvdfonts.com
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I thought I had passed this along, but maybe I forgot.
~tom
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