New License - was Re: [Bug 176096]

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon Dec 19 13:11:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 07:42 -0500, bugzilla at redhat.com wrote:

> 
> Spec Name or Url: http://guava.farsiweb.info/~roozbeh/gentium-fonts.spec
> SRPM Name or Url: http://guava.farsiweb.info/~roozbeh/gentium-fonts-1.02-1.src.rpm
> 
> Description:
> I wish to ask for a review for the above package. This is my first FE package, so I also wish to ask for a sponsor.
> 
> The description from the SPEC file:
> SIL Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
> designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
> the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports
> a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to
> all the Latin ranges of Unicode.

I don't think it is a problem, but does the license need to be reviewed
by legal? It's a new license:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL

I have a feeling they will be releasing other fonts soon under this
license as well - they (at least some people in their organization) are
pushing for usability of the upcoming $100 laptops in third world
countries with non latin script fonts, and looking seriously at good
Linux support for their fonts and libraries. And they have some really
high quality fonts for that purpose.

But anyway - Fedora stands to benefit from these fonts if the license is
kosher.

I don't know what Fedora's process is with having lawyers look at new
licenses etc. for Extras - but whatever the process, if it needs to be
started - I'd like it to be started.




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