https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820642
--- Comment #28 from Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsu...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #23) > A comment, which describes which file has which license is still missing: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ > LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licensing_Scenarios > > (In reply to comment #13) > > John Cowan from the FIGlet development team informed us that: > > > > "Bitmap fonts are in the public domain in the U.S., because they are > > considered insufficiently creative to copyright. Specifically, the actual > > *appearance* of a font cannot be copyrighted, and bitmaps are considered > > just a trivial transformation of the appearance. Scalable fonts are > > computer programs, though, and are copyrightable." > > According to that, the fonts should be "Public Domain" and that license is > missing yet. It is well understood that the appearance of fonts (the "typeface") is public domain. I'm not sure, however, about the files containing their encoding in a specific format such as the FIGlet FLF font file. My interpretation is that the bitmapped typeface can be freely copied as public domain, but the font file containing the encoding of the file can be subject to a license such as the one already used for the main package (so no other license is necessary). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review
