- Package:
- fonts-osifont
- Source:
- fonts-osifont
- Submitter:
- Tobias Frost
- Date:
- 2025-01-01 12:42:03 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer, The package ships osifont.ttf and osifont-italic.ttf. According to upstream (https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/) the license is different for the differnt fonts according to their name: The current d/copyright does not differentiate, it claims all three licenses for the osifont.ttf.
Checking the package again, the fonts with the license flavours are generated during build and the license is applied at build time [1]. However, that means that the source of the font (osifont.sfd) has a unspecified license. osifont-italic.sfd, OTOH, has a copyright specified: Copyright: Created by\nZefram Cochrane,\nhikikomori82@gmail.com,\nwith FontForge 2.0 (http://fontforge.sf.net)\n\nProject hosted on:\nhttp://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/\n\nDistributed under GNU LGPL version 3 with GPL font exception:\n\nAs a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-osifont/-/blob/master/generate.sh?ref_type=heads)
Upstream confirmed license: https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/issues/23#event-15790575391 Question: "Hi, while packaging FreeCAD for Debian I cam across the fonts-osifont package for Debian and found that the file osifont.sfd is not clearly licensed and to avoid DFSG problems I'm reaching out for clarifcation. This issue is tracked at Debian Bug #1091082 IIUIC the license is applied when running generate.sh by replacing LICENSE_PLACEHOLDER in osifont.sfd. However this does not specify the license for this file, so I assume the license for this file is the three licenses options "ored", like GNU GPL licence version 3 with font exception OR GNU GPL licence version 2 with font exception OR GNU LGPL licence version 3 with font exception I'd appreciate if you could confirm my understanding, so that I'll be able to fix the Debian bug. TIA! (and many kudos for the font!)" Answer: "Yes, you can pick one of the 3 licenses, the script itself also have one of the three licenses"