>>>> * These fonts are supposed to be taken out of their packages and put >>>> together into a new core-fonts packages. Installing their original >>>> packages will waste a lot of space. >>> I suppose this is a Ubuntu-only goal but I'm not sure how they will >>> handle the various licenses/copyrights/etc.... >> Ideally this core open fonts set will be the same across as many >> environments as possible. The goal is that the freedesktop common set >> will get build with feedback from the Debian and Ubuntu communities. > > Actually, I have taken some advice already from the freedesktop fonts > list. :) Excellent :-) Btw, I remembered that the LSB roadmap had a blurb on a common font set as well: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB_Roadmap >> I think we can work together with the Ubuntu folks on this one too: IIRC >> Arne is active on both sides too. > > yes, I am. :-) >> As for licensing around fonts, Debian and Ubuntu are in agreement and I >> don't think there will be need for license changes. OTOH, license >> unification for such a package would make a lot of sense... > > Not unification, that would not be possible, because that would mean > upstream font authors would have to relicense their work. > And I'm sure of at least one case where this is impossible. Yes, you're right, my comment was more about long-term things... > No, the individual fonts keep their licenses. All fonts I mentioned are > DFSG free, AFAIK. So, it should be a problem to get them into one > package and attach a license file to each font stating it's copyright > and license terms. (I take it you meant "should not be") I agree and I've started a little package skeleton in the team svn: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/fdo-core-openfonts/?rev=0&sc=0 > OTOH, if that should really pose a problem: > The second idea I proposed, was to split the current font packages into > 2: one -core package with the fonts needed for the Desktop core fonts, > and one -extra package with the additional fonts. License and copyrights > would not be touched, just the package rebuilt and split into two. IMHO the first idea sounds easier to implement now. > Cheers > Arne Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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