A license?
azmeuk opened this issue · comments
Hi. Thank you for sharing those fonts.
Would you consider putting a license to this repository? Maybe a license debian compatible so maybe those fonts could be shipped on the next debian?
edit: I just submitted a debian bug report : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900052
Might be hard to do since he would need to track down a lot of the original authors of the fonts.
But as a start - I'm Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen, the author of Swan.flf and Cygnet.flf
I made the fonts for people to use freely them, so I would be fine with a debian compatible license.
thx for that @CeeJayDK
i completely agree. i have no idea the licenses, if any, of these fonts. this repo exists b/c so many {friends,acquaintances,irc randos} asked me to share my collection that i put it up here. i personally am a fan of {CC0,kopimi,public domain} but i cannot speak for all the collective artists.
We can get info for some files. According to the file headers:
- some .tlf files have a reference to WTFPL licence (see
grep -i license *
). These files come from toilet fonts and are already packaged in debian. - a lot of files has been modified by patorjk which has a github account. The repository https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js is released under MIT Licence so I guess he would agree to add a licence on his modifications. (MIT is a DFSG licence.)
- xero writes
3d.flf
,rustofat.tlf
andrusto.tlf
so a licence is easily addable for those files. - 7 files have no name (see
grep "Font Author: ?" *
). It includesANSI Shadow.flf
. They comes from roysac.com website. The site is still alive but I doubt the maintainer could really help. grep -e "[[:alpha:]]@[[:alpha:]]" *
shows e-mail addresses that could be contacted. However, the files are old so I expect a lot of emails does not work anymore (and/or the creator doesn't care about it). We could ask them to say which licences they accept in this thread (like CeeJayDK did).
Even if we reach some of the creator, I don't think the files will be under the same licences. However, until they are DFSG-compatible, it would not be a problem.
Adding a SPDX header would help to follow each font licence. It's only including a line.
I can contact roysac.com maintainer and the emails listed in the files but I wonder if it's worth the effort.
What do you think about it?