[OpenFontLibrary] [Open Font Library] Upload Flagged

[Jon Phillips]

Actually, I think we should launch asap. If there are problematic
fonts, then we can rely upon flagging to help track them
down...otherwise, we'll never get to the launch! :)

Jon

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Nicolas Spalinger
<nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> wrote:
> panov at canopus.iacp.dvo.ru wrote:
>> Content has been flagged
>> Upload: Asana Math
>> URL: http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/asyropoulos/219
>> IP: 127.0.0.1
>> Flagger: panov
>> -------------------------------------
>> Asana Math violates the terms of the GPLv2 while it based on URW Palladio font.
>> -------------------------------------
>
> Via recent email discussion with Asana Math's author he explains that:
>
> - he hasn't touched Palladio
> - pxfonts was used as the basis of his design for many glyphs but not
> everything
> - he has explicit permission to relicence from the author of pxfonts
>
> I recommended he put this information in a more complete readme file (or
> better a FONTLOG http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Fontlog ) and in the
> font metadata.
>
> There was ftp://ftp.inria.fr/pub/TeX/CTAN/fonts/Asana-Math/README.1ST
> already.
>
> We should take this in good faith, but if there are problems upstream of
>  pxfonts itself, then it's another story...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
> Debian/Ubuntu font team / OpenFontLibrary
> http://planet.open-fonts.org
>
>
>



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Jon Phillips
http://rejon.org/