Quoting Paul Wise (2021-02-07 04:27:27) > On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 4:54 PM Joris wrote: > > > The Braille institute has released a "hyper legible" font. Could you please consider it for packaging? > > If you would like to work on this, please take a look at this page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > > The download from the webpage comes with this license: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-Font-License-2020-1104.pdf > > IANAL, but I'm not sure it meets the DFSG. > > This looks like a modified version of the SIL OFL, so it might be free > enough, although I would strongly suggest to the Braille Institute > they should use a standard license instead of a slightly modified > version of it. Thanks for pointing out the licensing issue above, Paul. That issue seems resolved new in upstream release 1.006, according to https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible/issues/1 and https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3562 . I write "seems" because https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont does not mention OFL and still references older PDF with a not-quite-OFL license. > In addition the reserved font name requirement means that Debian > cannot rebuild the font from source without renaming the font, which > would be annoying for Debian users. Seems release 1.006 is licensed _without_ reserved font names. Due to the (to me, at least) confusing variety of information, I would recommend anyone choosing to package this font to get in touch with and get confirmation on this detail from the copyright holder - and include that confirmation in the debian/copyright file of the source package. > > The font itself is distributed as plain, italic, bold and bolditalic, in otf/eot/svg/ttf/woff/woff2 at https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/atkinson-hyperlegible-font/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-Font-Print-and-Web-2020-0514.zip > > This appears to be missing the font source. Font source seems to be here: https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible I write "seems" because while it is apparently what Google considers source as per https://github.com/google/fonts/pull/3362 but it contains no tagged releases links to https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont which still links to older zip file https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/atkinson-hyperlegible-font/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-Font-Print-and-Web-2020-0514.zip containing release 1.02 of the font. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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