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majodev / google-webfonts-helper

A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets
https://gwfh.mranftl.com
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License in .zip bundle #51

Open hettiger opened 6 years ago

hettiger commented 6 years ago

Thank you for this tool. It's working great for me. Anyways I'd suggest to include the original license file that comes with Google Webfonts when you download it from Google directly.

majodev commented 6 years ago

We currently only link to the Google Fonts attibution page in the instructions (right beneath the download button), but you are absolutely right. Need to take a look if their api nowadays possibly offers direct retrieval...

skerbis commented 6 years ago

yes please that would help us to host fonts legaly

JordyValentine commented 5 years ago

This is an old issue, but since development seem's to have halted, I'll leave this here for future reference. The Google Font's repo has all the font's and license files together https://github.com/google/fonts The license files can be found in the same directory as the font files, eg; https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/ofl/abeezee/OFL.txt

Here's what the repo says about licensing; https://github.com/google/fonts#licensing

Licensing It is important to always read the license for every font that you use. Each font family directory contains the appropriate license file for the fonts in that directory. The fonts files themselves also contain licensing and authorship metadata.

Most of the fonts in the collection use the SIL Open Font License, v1.1. Some fonts use the Apache 2 license. The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0.

The SIL Open Font License has an option for copyright holders to include a Reserved Font Name requirement, and this option is used with some of the fonts. If you modify those fonts, please take care of this important detail.

SeerLite commented 3 years ago

I can confirm, the fonts retrieved using google-webfonts-helper do indeed contain license texts and links in the metadata. The license isn't required as an external file, at least for OFL fonts