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Archived since there are many great open source font sites already, see https://github.com/opensourcedesign/fonts/issues/21
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OCRA and OCRB license clarification #8

Closed raphaelbastide closed 9 years ago

raphaelbastide commented 9 years ago

Since the licenses of OCRA and B are blurry, unless a real clarification, I suggest not to include it in the repo.

jancborchardt commented 9 years ago

@raphaelbastide do you want to directly submit a pull request for removing them?

raphaelbastide commented 9 years ago

Maybe we can solve the issue first? Maybe Michael Demetriou author of the commit knows more about those licenses.

jancborchardt commented 9 years ago

cc @qwazix then. Do you know anything about that ^?

qwazix commented 9 years ago

They are indeed blurry, but after a careful read of them, without being a lawyer, I believe that the specific fonts I included are free software. The OCR-A official website explicitly mentions public domain (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font/) and

The version in this package descends from a set of Metafont definitions by Norbert Schwarz of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, bearing dates ranging from 1986 to 2010. He originally distributed it under a "non-commercial use only" restriction but has since released it for unrestricted use and distribution. See the README file for more details.

is a quote from the pdf that accompanies OCR-B, which I feel covers it. I cannot find the mentioned README file.

I also like to think that if it's good enough for debian packagers (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/texlive-fonts-extra) it should cover us too.

raphaelbastide commented 9 years ago

Great, that’s a good thing to see that those great fonts are in the public domain. I didn’t know about that :-) Thank you @qwazix for this precision. I guess this issue can be closed.

simonv3 commented 9 years ago

@raphaelbastide Thanks for being thorough about this!