2008/11/10 Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is getting >> users to put the metadata there. > > And keep it up to date / accurate > > Even when there is info in font metadata we often can not trust it > because it has been wrong so many times before.
Hmm. I disagree with that reasoning. I'm using Epiphany right now. I go to Help, About and see: "Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti Copyright (c) 2003-2006 The GNOME Web Browser Developers" and click the "Credits" button and see "Marco Pesenti Gritti Adam Hooper Xan Lopez Christian Persch Jean-François Rameau Contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contributors: Crispin Flowerday Peter Harvey Raphaël Slinckx Past developers: David Bordoley" and click the "License" button and see "The GNOME Web Browser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNOME Web Browser is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the GNOME Web Browser; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA" So I think it would be fine for a font to say in its metadata, "Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, George Bush Jr. This font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Open Font License as published by SIL; either version 1.1 of the License available from http://ofl11.url, or (at your option) any later version. See the Open Font License for more details." > Countless fonts make incomplete of plain false licensing statements in > their metadata (Google Droid is just the last high-visibility example). Then we should contact the authors and remind them to take care of the metadata too. > I'll take a detached license file and a versionned archive any day in > the stead of their metadata equivallents. One can be trusted the other — > not. By providing authors with a way to upload ZIP archives - and perhaps in the future a way to automatically generate ZIP archives with such detatched licenses if they aren't already included - I think the OFLB should support this. -- Regards, Dave
