Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Merging font teams and share knowledge?
On 15/09/06, Christian Perrier <Christian.Perrier@onera.fr> wrote:
Hello,
During the OpenOffice.org conference, I had a very interersting talk
with Nicolas Spalinger who indeed made me discover the work of the OFL
fonts packaging team.
I learned a lot about OFL (Open Font license) and the work done by SIL
about fonts.
:)
We both agreed that we really should share the knowledge about fints
and fonts packaging. Having two font packaging teams in Debian sounds
a bit weird.
Indeed, sorry I missed the pkg-fonts announcement and didn't think to
speak about it to you in Extremadura.
>From my current knowledge, the font team I created a few months ago
has a lot to learn from the OFL fonts packaging team...and the
opposite is also probably right.
What do you think about us working out to merge both teams into one?
Sounds like a good idea to me.
For instance, some of the font packages we maintain could be worked to
adopt the OFL license instead of the probably less well suited GPL or
LGPL ones. From what I've understood right now, OFL is really meant
for fonts and can probably make font designers less reluctant to
release their work as free "software".
That would be great :)
Please comment by keeping both lists CC'ed (this may trigger some work
for the moderators, but well....).
No problem with that at this end ;) The membership of pkg-ofl-fonts is
very small, and just has the package maintainership as well. If it is
ok I'll change those packages to have
pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org as the owner.
Are people thinking of making pkg-fonts-devel be the maintainer of all
the fonts packages in the project? The members maintaining the fonts
would be the uploaders. That is what we are doing in pkg-ofl-fonts.
If you could add the folks on the pkg-ofl-fonts project to pkg-fonts
that would be great. Then we could move the stuff in svn.
Thanks,
Daniel
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