Licensing declarations in font spec files

[Benson Muite]

Hi,

Am reviewing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257137

the font is under OFL-1.1-RN license, but the conf file is under MIT.
Should the spec file contain

%global fontlicense     OFL-1.1-RFN
%license                MIT
%global fontlicenses    fonts/LICENSE.txt

if not, where should the conf file license declaration be made?

Benson

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 20 juin 2025 à 08:41 +0300, Benson Muite via fonts a
écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Am reviewing:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257137
>
> the font is under OFL-1.1-RN license, but the conf file is under MIT.
> Should the spec file contain
>
> %global fontlicense     OFL-1.1-RFN
> %license                MIT
> %global fontlicenses    fonts/LICENSE.txt
>
> if not, where should the conf file license declaration be made?

IMHO the license that matters for the font package is the license of
the font files (spec files are often MIT too that’s not a reason to
make all Fedora rpms FOO and MIT)

You can always trace explicitly the licensing of the fontconfig files
with a SPDX declaration within those files

<!--SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-->