Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] license violations with embedded binary copies of GNU FreeFont?
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- Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] license violations with embedded binary copies of GNU FreeFont?
- From: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:06:33 +0200
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On 10/06/11 05:07, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>
>> From the names of the subsets, even if there are variations and the
>> added suffixes ?
>
> How do you even get the font names?
AFAICT pdffonts reads it from the PDF file structure directly.
>>> On that topic, I wonder if we need a lintian complaint for fonts in
>>> main that have restrictive bits enabled; no embedding/modifying etc.
>>
>> Yeah, great idea! That would be really helpful.
>
> This would need to be in perl and using the perl font libs, so not
> something I know how to do. Perhaps you could think up exactly what we
> need to look for and write the long description for the warnings?
>
>> Along with a little python script using fonttools or fontforge to output
>> the fsType as an extra item in the report for each font in the review to
>> help with what already in the archive?
>
> Does fontaine output embedding information? Maybe we could just
> package and backport that. Or can we modify one of our existing
> scripts?
It seems fontaine doesn't do this, so until we dive into the lintian
check I suggest we simply plug the little fontembedding python fontforge
script into our review:
I committed the script in my people/ folder (it's on
http://utilities.open-fonts.org/ as well) and the small mods on our
review scripts.
Could you please test/improve/deploy?
Thanks,
--
Nicolas Spalinger,
SIL NRSI volunteer - http://scripts.sil.org
Debian fonts task force - http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
Open font community - http://planet.open-fonts.org
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