On 16 October 2014 08:07, pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While going through metadata, i found situation is bit familiar with
fontconfig (.conf) files in font packages. As per font packaging guideline
fontconfig file is mandatory for each font packages.
Kinda. I think fontconfig files are a very good idea to be mandatory,
so they actually work when installed. We *don't* want all fonts to
have MetaInfo files however; some fonts are poor quality or only
contain some glyphs (e.g. the Ubuntu title font) and we don't want to
show those.
2. Existing fontconfig files added by font maintainer in font
packages does
not have any Copyright or Licensing. IMHO good to keep things easy and
avoid dual licensing.
The metadata extractor will accept files without copyright, but it's
rather stricter on licensing; we need to make sure the output
AppStream metadata is a sane and with a redistributable license.
Richard.