Ubuntu Font Family

Finalise Ubuntu Font Family licence/distribution terms

Bug #632411 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Font Family
Fix Released
High
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Ubuntu Font Family 0.68
Ubuntu Font Licence
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

In order for any .deb packages to be presented for potential uploading to the main Ubuntu archives ('universe'/'main') the licensing will need to be clarified/finalised to something DFSG-ish (Ubuntu has slightly different requirements to Debian but they are fairly similar). The Ubuntu Font Family is released for the present under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-licence

For the phased beta/development stages, the Ubuntu Font Family has been distributed under both internal, and latterly non-NDA licensing terms via the PPAs. This bug report is a placeholder to track what needs doing on a _technical level_ once any high-level decision/choice/etc has been assessed/finalised at some point. Following finalisation of any licensing decision the font family will need further updates to adjust in various places:

  1. in the .ttfs (probably best to get DM to undertake this, although it could be done retrospectively as the TTF data is structured)
  2. in the .deb package's 'debian/copyright' file.
  3. relevant wiki pages, eg. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu%20Font%20Family
  4. fonttest.design.canonical.com
  5. any press/notices/blogs on the subject (DM, Mark, Fridge, UWN, DX Team blog, Canonical, ...)
  6. please click edit and extend this list!

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Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: New → Confirmed
Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - Finalise <1.0 Ubuntu Font Family licence/distribution terms
+ Finalise Ubuntu Font Family licence/distribution terms
tags: added: uff-10.10-todo
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
milestone: none → 0.7.0
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
milestone: 0.6.7 → 0.7.0
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

On a related-note, bug #648406 notes that the DRMish bits need clearing.

tags: added: ttf-licence ttf-metadata
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Nicolas Spalinger (yosch) wrote :

Metadata in the sources (vfb, hinting ttfs, text sources) also needs to be double-checked and synced.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

The upstream packaging is done by unpackaging:

  http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-sources_0.68+ufl.diff

to the .zip file drop from Dalton Maag. The additions to the Makefile here would be:

  * execute 'patch-truetype' over the VTT .ttfs
  * investigate the .vfb format and work out how to patch that internally
  * Prepend a filled out 'copyright.txt' to the CacheTT .cfg

Any others? For the result of these will be a new upstream-tarball, and can (post-RC, on Thursday) be used to upload a new package.

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Paul Sladen (sladen)
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
importance: Undecided → High
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

ubuntu-font-family-sources (0.68+ufl-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 0.68+ufl: (LP: #629622, #633508)
    - Libre font, licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0 (LP: #632411)

  * New upstream release 0.68:
    - All
      + Version numbering agreed (LP: #633176, #629727)
      + The glyph at Unicode x1F5d was changed in all fonts, i.e. change
        of commaaccent in Greek glyph
      + Updated OS/2 table Strikethrough and 'post' table underline
        values to match thickness of underscore.
    - Italic / Bold Italic
      + The feminineordinal in the Italic now follows the design of
        the a, it has been updated and hinted.

  * New upstream release 0.67:
    - All
      + Version number forwarded to 0.67
    - Regular
      + Hinting adjustments for 15 - 18 ppm
      + Greek glyph uni1F5D has accent corrected.
      + Hinting amends for lowercase v, w and y in sizes 30 - 42
      + hdmx table include 120dpi ranges (LP: #608823)
      + Hinting amended to adjust for Freetype hint
        implementation. (LP: #614693)
    - Italic
      + Greek glyph uni1F5D has accent corrected.
    - Italic / Bold Italic:
      + lowercase f redesigned. (LP: #623925)
      + ae dipthong redesigned. (LP: #621157)

 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
assignee: Paul Sladen (sladen) → nobody
milestone: 0.70 → 0.68
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-licence:
status: New → Fix Released
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Nicolas Spalinger (yosch) wrote :

In version 0.69, the various files in sources/ still need licensing information to be applied in their metadata and headers.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Yup, there's no documentation (on style-decisions/direction) either, a few issues in the FONTLOG and because of the last-minute patching broken digital signatures in the DSIG table.

My current idea/intent is (after the stress of the Ubuntu 10.10 release) we try to get a "perfect" distribution made of what we've already got, signed and with all the documentation/source licence fixes, and have Dalton Maag put that out as 0.70. Does this make sense?

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