Re: [Denemo-devel] Copyrigth of the fonts?

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 17:36 -0600, Josue Abarca wrote:
> Who is the copyright holder of
> fetta.ttf ?
> 
> Whe you open it with fontforge it states:
> 
> Copyright:
> "Font converted to Type 1 by mf2pt1, written by
> Scott Pakin."
> 
> Under which license is released?.
I don't know about this at all.

> 
> Denemo.ttf seems to me that is under the LICENSE_OFL.txt, but if you
> open it with fontforge it states:
> 
> "Copyright (c) 2001 by Robert Allgeyer. Free public license.
> Re-ordered for denemo (c) Richard Shann 2007"

I found a font with musical signs that said "free" and modified it for
denemo.

> 
> Is "Free public license" = "LICENSE_OFL" ? or is wrong this info in
> the file ?.

My guess is that the person who wrote that did not have any specialist
knowledge about licences, I think you can choose any reasonable
interpretation of the words.

> 
> The file:
> denemo-0.8.14/AUTHORS states:
> " ...
> Pixmaps created by Lilypond mf-to-xpms... though I haven't figured out
> which of the Lilypond authors specifically made the fonts or the script to
> translate them."
> 
> Does anyone have more information?.
I am happy to license my work on denemo.ttf under any licence that
allows work on denemo to proceed without hindrance. The work has no
wider importance anyway. Jeremiah Benham (IIRC) also modified that font.

Richard


> 
> Thanks for your help.
>