On 7/19/2017 10:09 AM, Ian Darwin wrote: > 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. >
Makes sense to me.
