On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:51 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
- The font situation is bad enough we have a font exception to our
FLOSS rules http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-daa717ea096fa4d9cf7b... [for example we ship Luxi even though its licensing forbids modification, making it non-free http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE11.html]
Open a bug report. Let's start the process of having it removed in F9.
- There are efforts to drain the font licensing swamp and promote
FLOSS fonts (http://unifont.org/go_for_ofl/), they are aligned with Fedora general objectives yet Fedora has totally ignored them so far (cf Liberation licensing choices)
Keep in mind that Liberation licensing was a Red Hat, Inc decision, not a Fedora decision.
Also, we haven't totally ignored the OFL, since it is listed as the "preferred" font license on the Fedora licensing page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Fonts
~spot
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