[Fedora-legal-list] license included inside ttf is accepted?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 06/29/2010 10:10 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Parag Nemade <pnemade at redhat.com> 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