[smc-discuss] Public statement by Rachana Institute of Typography

[ജോയ്സ് മൂലേക്കരി]

Hi,

> I volunteer myself for this effort, as someone who has been around for a
long time with SMC. I'd like to ask Akshay, Aboobacker, Joice and Balu to
volunteer too. As another long time member I'd ask Anoop P (Gnoop) to join
in. I believe we can verify and validate claims regarding SMCs fonts and
licensing and recommend a proper way forward, crediting everyone and making
sure that nobody is left bereft of appropriate credit.

Sure. Count me in.

Best, Joice



2019 നവം 26, ചൊവ്വ, 3:21 PM-ന്-ന്, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>
എഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നു:

>
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov, 2019, 8:00 PM Pirate Praveen, <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On ചൊ, Nov 26, 2019 at 13:48, Anoop Panavalappil
>> <anoop at librecode.org> wrote:
>> > Agree. The "Credit criteria" should be discussed and agreed upon ASAP.
>>
>> I don't think we need to limit ourselves to what is required legally. I
>> think we can be lenient about giving credits and just credit anyone who
>> contributed significantly, by design, coning, ideas, feedback, testing
>> or any other means. What is there to lose if we are going beyond what
>> is required legally? I don't think there is anything to gain by
>> fighting with other Free Software developers over copyright or credits.
>>
>
> Praveen Credit/attribution of someis a creative commons school product. It
> is more a byproduct of Fair use policies.
>
> Here the question is more on reuse of the code under the free software
> licenses . technically it is a copyright claim, but more a way for ensuring
> the licenses will be followed correctly while reusing it.
>
> The popular way on Font projects  free licensing these days is not filling
> the binaries with long list of names. Instead it will just say
>
> Copyright <year>: <Fontname> Authors . Licensed under SIL OFL <version>
>
> The repo will have AUTHORS file and a CONTRIBUTORS file .
>
> the AUTHORS  file will have Initial Copyright holders (esp, in fonts
> designer have a crucial role) .
>
> CONTRIBUTORS file is primarily for everyone who contributed, and want
> their name to be included (it can be part of merge requests ) . Significant
> contributions can be recognized with inclusion to AUTHORS file by
> respective project teams.
>
> The advantage of this approach is contributors can request inclusion
> easily by themselves. Dave Cross land had some HOWTO shared earlier
> sometime around 2016 related to such practical steps for free font
> management in webfont era. Eg. Adding a symbol in some language will be a
> future one time contributions in a repo, the project need to record it
> while maintaining value of each pieces.
>
>
> This was planned in 2015 time, but one issue I noticed in repo now is
> some  fonts (chilanka) says Copyright <fontname> Authors . and there is
> well maintained AUTHORS file and empty CONTRIBUTORs file . but License file
> is old dated and with names and not referring authors file as I can see.
> That is the reason for one confusion as I can see.
>
>
> So what I am saying in short is follow a method as standard in every repo
> and publish clear howto on reusing, with proper license compatibility.
>
> So confusions as we have seen with RIT while reusing the code shouldn't
> emerge. Project standard polices should be followed and it shouldn't be
> left to a personal threads on licensing and attributing
>
> The whole goal of the effort should be make it easy for people to reuse
> the code with all four freedoms for the development of malayalam language
> (this answers Nandakumar's question as well)
>
>
>
>
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