Tracing the origin of a font
by Anne Wilson
How would you go about finding who owns the copyright to a font? I'm
wondering whether I could find the owners of a few rather nice fonts and talk
to them about open-sourcing.
Anne
16 years
Re: Packaging a font for Linux
by Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 8 avril 2008 13:03, Erdal Ronahi a écrit :
> Hi Davide, hi Nicholas,
Hi Erdal,
> I am the head of the Kurdish l10n group for free software. Ben Laenen
> was so
> kind to give me your emails. I am asking for help with packaging and
> distributing a font for Linux.
[...]
> What we
> are not familiar with is how to package this font and get major
> distributions like Debian or Fedora to accept it into their
> repositories.
> Should we file a bug for that, if so where, or can you two help us
> directly?
The Fedora font teams dwells at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts
You'll find here quite a lot of packaging documentation, and the page
on which new font packaging requests are registered.
However since our number of font packagers is currently very small, I
much prefer forming new font packagers than packaging new fonts
directly (we already have a huge backlog). It's a win-win - you learn
how to package new kurdish fonts and push your font updates quickly,
we get new fonts in Fedora without putting more burden on the existing
font packaging team. If you have one or several people that have
fedora installed we can arrange some font mentoring session on ##fonts
one week-end (or evening CET time).
Otherwise if you prefer I can also help you through the
get-it-packaged-by-someone-else process, but it can be a lot longer
given the current packager pool.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
16 years
New Location For Lohit Fonts
by Rahul Bhalerao
Hi all,
The Lohit fonts project hereon will be hosted on fedorahosted.org.
Following is the new homepage of the project:
https://www.fedorahosted.org/lohit
This had to be done since the previous location i.e. wiki on
fedoraproject.org had many limitations. The new location which is
based on "trac" is a better project management system. Note that the
the version control system is changed from cvs to svn. We now also
have the facility to view and browse the source online. There have
been requests to make tarballs available in a form other than wiki
attachments, so that is also done temporarily now.
For more details please visit the new project home page.
Thanks,
Rahul Bhalerao.
16 years
