Am 07.03.2011 16:20, schrieb Nicolas Spalinger:
Considering that the copyright of the work is assigned to a company and not GNOME as a non-profit, I'm not sure how GNOME could be the foundry... Also there are some discrepancies with a foundry name which is different than the company name in the metadata of the various source files.
Well, maybe the term "foundry" isn't as universally suitable as we wish and it simply canot be applied to all possible fonts. Maybe we should concentrate on who *released* the font.
In the current example, Dave Crossland has release the Cantarell fonts on <http://abattis.org/cantarell/>, but development has recently been taken over by the GNOME team under the same font name and we package *their* version. Thus the package name should be fonts-gnome-cantarell. If we also packaged (for whatever reasons) Dave's original version of the fonts, that package name should probably be fonts-abattis-cantarell or fonts-dcrossland-cantarell or something similar.
Another example are the Tuffy fonts, originally released by Thatcher Ulrich on <http://tulrich.com/fonts/>. As a package name for the original font I propose fonts-tulrich-tuffy. However, there are several derivatives of this fonts released under the same name, but not by Thatcher. If we e.g. ever packaged the variant found here <http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=123829>, the package should IMHO be called fonts-brrtkr-tuffy, although neither tulrich nor brrtkr is stricly speaking a "foundry".
As a last example take the Liberation fonts, created by Ascender for Red Hat. Sure, they were created by Ascender, so this will be the "foundry2 name, but the fonts that we distribute today have been heavily extended and modified by Red Hat, Fedora and a wide community and are in effect *not the Ascender fonts* anymore. Since they are developed and released by Red Hat (and not Ascender) I propose to change their package name to either fonts-redhat-liberation or fonts-fedora-liberation (or maybe even fonts-fedorahosted-liberation).
What do you think? - Fabian