[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFC: fonts-pompiere

Gioele Barabucci gioele at svario.it
Mon Nov 2 18:20:10 UTC 2015


Am 02.11.2015 um 09:06 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Hi Gioele,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 01.11.2015, 20:51 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci:
>> claimed to be Karolina Lach on both Google Fonts (official release
>> website) and Sorkin Type's website. However the licence and the rest of
>> the documentation say that the font is (c) Sorkin Type. For this reason
>> I wrote the name of the designer in the package description and I have
>> left the licence text untouched. Is this the correct way to go?
>
> as Jonas already pointed out, the Author and the Copyright Holder of a
> work are not necessarily identical. There are e.g. some GNU projects
> that require copyright assignment from code authors. The relevant part,
> however, is the Copyright, whereas the Authorship is merely a nice
> extra information (unless the license requires to explicitely credit
> the Authors).

Thank you for the clarification. Given that I have not found a "Author" 
field, I suppose that what I have done is all one can do.

Cheers,

-- 
Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it>



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