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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: media-fonts/droid licensing: should fonts include Apache license in tarball?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:59:03
Message-Id: 20080826215845.00b8c10c@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] media-fonts/droid licensing: should fonts include Apache license in tarball? by Peter Volkov
1 On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:25:42 +0400
2 Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hello.
5 >
6 > There are droid fonts package in the tree. Author states that they are
7 > apache licensed [1] (supposedly similar to google's android sdk) but
8 > license itself is not included in the package (only .ttf files are
9 > there). Should we RESTRICT="mirror" in such case or it's safe to drop
10 > such restriction?
11 >
12 > [1]
13 > http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-sans-mono-great-coding-font
14 >
15 > Thank you for any hints,
16
17 RESTRICT=mirror is probably the safest bet. Both Apache licenses
18 require a copy to be included when redistributing, source or binary.
19
20 PS. Badger him into switching to OFL while you're at it. ;)
21
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