Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > >> This font's license is not one of the usual licenses we know about and >> the text is written as is: > ... >> What is the debian-legal experts opinion on this license? > > I'm no expert, but there doesn't appear to be any permission to > modify, trivially non-free. > > The upstream website says that the font is included in Debian already, > that sounds like an RC bug. > > License proliferation is bad, it would be great if upstream could use > a more common license. > > I would suggest they simply distribute the dedication to Yogini > Joglekar in a zip file along with a README suggesting that > distrubutions include this dedication in their package descriptions, > which would make it non-binding but strongly encouraged.
Whatever license is chosen, I would also recommend using a FONTLOG to talk about the history of the project and the dedication to the Marathi author as they are rarely removed by package maintainers: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Fontlog And a quick look at the NAME table of the ttf files show that the info isn't there. With the work going on to expose more of that metadata I would also highly recommend they use these dedicated fields (description and others) to mention the dedication. HTH, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font team / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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