So, it sounds reasonable to use that license for fonts needed in the WebKit project. If nobody has objections, an update of the WebKit licensing policy and a review of the patch [1] including fonts under that license (for MathML) would be great! François Sausset [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41961 Le 16 juil. 2010 à 18:05, Eric Seidel a écrit :
A little web searching produced:
It's OSI approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/openfont.html
GNU thinks it's OK, albeit having an "unusual requirement": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fonts
Fedora recommended: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Font_Licenses
It would appear to be "the font license".
-eric
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> wrote:
We have a licensing issue we need to address for MathML. We need the STIX fonts as they will provide consistent rendering for Mathematics. I highly suspect these fonts will find themselves on our desktops somewhere down the road. Meanwhile, we need them for our testing infrastructure to actually work across all the platforms.
The STIX Fonts are available under the SIL Open Font License:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL_web
You can see the patch that adds these fonts here:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41961
I think we need to adjust our licensing policy to include font licenses like the above. It is unlikely that the STIX consortium will change their font licensing. In reality, they don't need to do so. The font license is intended to support "open source" fonts.
-- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered."
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