On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
To sum it up: It is my opinion that it is not necessary to include the font license in each font package/subpackage as long as it is present in the -common package, and each of the font package/subpackages properly Requires the -common package.
And by the way, if it would be necessary even given the above, the issue would not be limited to fonts packages at all but would apply lots of other subpackage splits in the distro as well.