Help with licensing questions
Paul Lange
palango at gmx.de
Tue Feb 10 16:58:17 UTC 2009
Hey,
I'm currently packaging up Aurulent Sans.
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hartke_Aurulent_fonts )
At the moment there are only some compiled *.otf files available.
Because of this I asked the author for sources to compile from. But the
answer is going a bit over my current horizon.
The answer I got an the question if it would be possible to provide some
sources is:
This is a tricky issue, for a couple of reasons:
First, the font is created with MetaType1. This is not
particularly easy to
install or setup. Will you be able to do that? Since my hard
drive crashed
over the summer, I lost some of the changes that I had made to
MetaType1 so
that it would run in Fedora (mainly shell scripts and the like).
At the
moment, I cannot compile the sources.
Second, I have ceased work on the MetaType1 version of Aurulent
Sans. I am
re-creating the font using Python scripting in FontForge, and I
think this
is a more promising approach. However, I don't have much time
to spend on
it, so this is definitely a long term project.
Third, it's not clear what license the source files should be
released
under. Since they are code, it seems that the GPL would be
appropriate, not
the OFL. However, it's not clear what the effect of using the
GPL would be;
certainly I'd want people to be able to directly modify and
redistribute the
"binary" font file.
So I don't have some experience with font building and need some hints
here.
Also I don't have a clear answer on the licensing question.
Regards,
Paul
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