Hi all,today I have had a quick look at the fonts shipped with Sankore-3.1 in the folder
Sankore-3.1/resources/customizations/fontsOnly 3 of them can be packaged/found in Debian. The other fonts cause issues with the Debian free software guidelines [1].
With this mail I want to raise awareness on those issues by raising some green, some yellow and a red flag.
Green Flags ----------- ec_cour.ttf (Ecolier Court, Open Font License), already in Debian ecl_cour.ttf (Ecolier Lignes Court, Open Font License), already in DebianAndBasR.ttf (Andika Basic), I substitute that by the Andika font as found in Debian package fonts-sil-andika.
Yellow Flags ------------For the below fonts I could not find a proper upstream (the makers of the fonts) on the internet. So, the license remains unclear. On download sites [2] I found: only use for non-commercial use (however, my French is not so good, so I may be mistaken here). This hurts DFSG-6, as in Debian there may only be software that can be used for any purpose.
AlphoneticGB.ttf ALPHONET.TTF Cursive standard.ttf Cursive standard Bold.ttf SCRIPTCA.TTF SCRIPTCO.TTF ScriptEcole2.ttfThe fonts below can be obtained from [3] (upstream), but they are licensed under the CC-by-NC-ND 2.0 [4]. This license is not compliant with the Debian free software guidelines (no commercial use -> DFSG-6, no derivatives -> DFSG-3).
ec_cp.ttf ec_cp_pt.ttf ec.ttf ecl.ttf eclcopt.ttf ec_co_pt.ttf Red Flag --------The font below is called Gino School Script. I could not find a license for it, but I found a site [5] where you can buy this font for 99,--€. So I guess, you better remove that from Github, as it seems to be a completely non-free font.
GinSSB60.ttf Consequences on Open-Sankore in Debian --------------------------------------The Debian package will for now be shipped without the named fonts. My (and probably also Miry's) questions are: can you substitute those fonts by fully free fonts? Where will those fonts be missing in Sankore and where will the user notice that?
light+love, Mike [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract [2] http://pointecole.free.fr/polices.html [3] http://douteau.ecolier.perso.sfr.fr/page_ecolier.htm [4] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/[5] http://www.signumart.com/typo/famille/gino_school_script/be-57.html#preview
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