[OpenFontLibrary] What licenses do we accept?

[Ed Trager]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> The Yanone fonts have a similar problem: web page says "CC" (Generic
>> CC) but the font header only says
>>
>>   "Copyright (c) Yanone, 2005. All rights reserved."
>>
>> ... so the font file itself fails to identify a license as far as I can
>> see.
>
> It's linked on the homepage and included in the zip :p
>
> I'd rather have it this way than the other (some metadata but no detached
> license)
>

I would prefer to see both:  (1) meta data in font files clearly
identifies the license and (2) Separate text file called "license.txt"
or "LICENSE.txt" or "LICENSE" in the downloaded package also clearly
identifies the license ...

In any case, if the license/copyright field in the font files
themselves lack the information, then software like Fontaine can't
make any automated determination .

- Ed