license included inside ttf is accepted?

[Parag Nemade]

Hi,
    khmeros-fonts package do not have separate license text file but its 
license is picked from the license text inside ttf file. Is there any 
guidelines for this?
    Can we package font files provided vaild license text is included 
inside ttf file only?

Parag.

[Tom Callaway]

On 06/29/2010 02:46 AM, Parag Nemade wrote:
> Hi,
>     khmeros-fonts package do not have separate license text file but its 
> license is picked from the license text inside ttf file. Is there any 
> guidelines for this?
>     Can we package font files provided vaild license text is included 
> inside ttf file only?

Yes, this is fine, as long as the license is acceptable, of course.

~spot

[Tom Lane]

Parag Nemade  writes:
> Can we package font files provided vaild license text is included 
>
> inside ttf file only?

What I've seen done in a couple of packages is to have the specfile
extract the license text from whatever file it's embedded in into a
separate LICENSE file, which can then be included as %doc in the normal
way.  This is particularly important if the text is in, say, a .c file's
header comment, such that it wouldn't be present in the distributed
RPMs at all if you didn't do this.  But I think it might be appropriate
for your example too --- who's going to think to look in a .ttf?

regards, tom lane

[Tom Callaway]

On 06/29/2010 10:10 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Parag Nemade  writes:
> > Can we package font files provided vaild license text is included 
> >
> > inside ttf file only?
>
> What I've seen done in a couple of packages is to have the specfile
> extract the license text from whatever file it's embedded in into a
> separate LICENSE file, which can then be included as %doc in the normal
> way.  This is particularly important if the text is in, say, a .c file's
> header comment, such that it wouldn't be present in the distributed
> RPMs at all if you didn't do this.  But I think it might be appropriate
> for your example too --- who's going to think to look in a .ttf?

To be fair, the ttf format specifies a field for license. Fontforge can
view it. Obscure if you're not familiar with fonts? Sure. But I _always_
look inside font files for a license.

~spot