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adobe-fonts / source-code-pro

Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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LICENSE inclusion clarification #329

Open jpalus opened 7 months ago

jpalus commented 7 months ago

Note that this is a question for clarification. I'm not a lawyer in any form and licenses get me confused.

Quoting LICENSE.md: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/blob/4bbbf01dcf69752d527dbad061e2977b30d0bee2/LICENSE.md?plain=1#L56-L61

Doesn't that mean that official releases ie at https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/releases/tag/2.042R-u%2F1.062R-i%2F1.026R-vf should distribute LICENSE.md within zip files as well?

frankrolf commented 7 months ago

These are related: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif/issues/107 https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif/issues/116

The license in question is the OFL license, a link to which is embedded into every single font file: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/blob/main/familynameIDs.fea#L9

I think this might qualify as “appropriate machine-readable metadata field”.

jpalus commented 7 months ago

Thanks. I'm not sure if link alone qualifies as a license copy (what if it no longer works? And BTW the included link http://scripts.sil.org/OFL is no longer valid, it redirects to https://openfontlicense.org/) or whether it is "easily viewed by the user" (took me some time to find otfinfo tool that displays both link and an exact license version). But as long as Adobe's happy, I'm happy too :)

pauldhunt commented 6 months ago

Thanks for alerting us to this issue. I will update the link in the net release.