On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: > I asked one of the distributors (Dyalog) of the APL385 font and he > kindly addressed me to the page of the original Adrian Smith's font, > where it is explicitly mentioned that the font is in the public domain: > > http://www.apl385.com/fonts/index.htm > > > The readme for Emacs APL mode, at https://github.com/lokedhs/gnu-apl-mode, > > suggests to use GNU FreeFont, which is GPL'd. If you can't find > > documentation > > that your other font is PD or otherwise licensable, I'd use their "Free" > > Font. > > It seems that GNU FreeFont is already in the port tree, so we have two > options here: either we add FreeFont as a dependency to the package > (which is not, technically) or we ship the APL385 font with the package, > or we preserve the distribution as it is and only add a 'README.openBSD' > to address the user to further resources, just like Emacs APL mode did.
That's three, actually :-) But given that the 385 font is indeed explicitly PD I would probably just include it, unless anyone else wants to weigh in? You should probably mention that the font is PD in the license comment.
