Re: Opening up of various fonts by google
Hi,
2010/6/4 Parag N(पराग़) <panemade(a)gmail.com>:
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Nicolas Spalinger
<nicolas_spalinger(a)sil.org> wrote:
> Paul Flo Williams wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> I noticed Google has recently launched its google font directory. As part
>>> of this they have negotiated the opening up of various previous not
>>> completely open fonts. Here a list of fonts which we have not yet packaged,
>>> and which are not on the wishlist either:
>>
>> [snipped list]
>>
>> There seems to have been a flurry of packaging activity on these over the
>> past week. I am slightly concerned that some of them don't seem to be
>> following the naming guidelines for font packages.
>>
>> As an example, OFL Sorts Mill Goudy seems to have been rushed from first
>> packaging to release in just six days, but there is no foundry name,
>> although Google seems to be treated as upstream for this and several other
>> fonts.
>>
>> Are we going to start using "google" as a foundry name, or take the
>> original source of these, where possible?
>>
>> Paul
>
>
> I recommend going to the upstream website for various open fonts
> currently in the Google font directory, there are upstream URL links in
> the METADATA files.
>
> Also for packaging in Fedora you probably want the full version (with
> more extended sources) and not the web-optimized version in the root
> folder of the hg repository.
>
> The structure of the upstream hg repository is being reworked and
> reorganized with the goals to fix some metadata bugs and unneeded files
> who have slipped it and move closer to the recommended ). I recommend
> waiting a little bit for that to settle before doing packaging.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> --
> Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
> Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
> http://planet.open-fonts.org
>
Thanks all for your replies. I am willing to fix those packages if
they are needed to be renamed. Please tell me or open new bugzilla and
I will rename them. I do have plan to package remaining fonts but I
think then I will wait for some more time then.
Packages from above list which are now in fedora are
tangerine-fonts
lobster-fonts
josefinsansstd-light-fonts
crimson-text-fonts
molengo-fonts
ofl-sorts-mill-goudy-fonts
cardo-fonts
should foundry name for these be upstream website names? or
googlefontdirectory or just google?
If it should be from upstream then I will choose following names (also
will pull latest fonts from website given as now googlefontdirectory
is changed within week)
tomagiri-tangerine-fonts -> not found any url
typemade-josefinsansstd-light-fonts->http://typemade.mx
aldusleaf-crimson-text-fonts ->http://aldusleaf.org/
moyogo-molengo-fonts ->http://code.google.com/u/moyogo/
crudfactory-ofl-sorts-mill-goudy-fonts->http://home.comcast.net/~crudf...
scholarsfonts-cardo-fonts-> http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html
Parag.
I have re-packaged all above to follow foundry in font package names
and submitted to package review. Its since a week I am still looking
for reviewers. I request if someone can spare some time from their
busy work schedule and help to review them, I will be thankful to
them.
Parag.