[Pkg-fonts-devel] License for fonts at www.fontsnthings.com

[Olivier Sallou]

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I think I will indeed drop those ones.
The upstream author of the package I am in charge of, will remove those
dependencies....

Quite a pity however to get so many fonts "free" on internet, but with
unclear or old licenses and no contact....

Olivier

Le 8/3/11 9:40 AM, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> Quoting Olivier Sallou (olivier.sallou at irisa.fr):
>> Hi,
>> has anyone already used (in debian package) the original fonts from
www.fontsnthings.com (those created by them)?
>> I am trying to clarify the license but I have no answer from the web
site contacts...
>>
>>
>> License specify it is free, can be distributed etc..., but there is no
mention on possibility to modify. License terms as well original fonts
were created in 2001/2003, so quite a long time ago....
>
>
> It unfortunnately happens more than often...:-(. If in doubt, I'd
> suggest *not* packaging the fonts.
>
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