Le 19 juil. 2010 à 21:04, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit :
Apple's legal department would strongly prefer for WebKit's license terms to remain simple. We prefer everything to be licensed under LGPL or BSD terms, or at the very least a license which is clearly compatible with LGPL and BSD. Is this license LGPL-compatible for cases where the fonts are embedded as data in software?
See answers 1.4 to 1.7 in the following official FAQ of the license: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL-FAQ_web It is compatible. And as the font is only used by DumpRenderTree for tests, the WebKit API by itself does not need it at all. So, Safari, Chrome/Chromium, etc need to include neither the font, nor the license.
For support material that has unusual license terms, another possibility is to have WebKit's support scripts automatically download it, rather than checking it directly into the repository.
CSS font-face could be a workaround but a persistent location should be found (and I suppose WebKit website has the same licensing issues?). And with that solution MathML layout tests could not be run without a network connection. François Sausset
Regards, Maciej
On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Eric Seidel wrote:
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.
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