<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 Nov, 2019, 8:00 PM Pirate Praveen, <<a href="mailto:praveen@onenetbeyond.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">praveen@onenetbeyond.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On ചൊ, Nov 26, 2019 at 13:48, Anoop Panavalappil <br>
<<a href="mailto:anoop@librecode.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">anoop@librecode.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Agree. The "Credit criteria" should be discussed and agreed upon ASAP.<br>
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I don't think we need to limit ourselves to what is required legally. I <br>
think we can be lenient about giving credits and just credit anyone who <br>
contributed significantly, by design, coning, ideas, feedback, testing <br>
or any other means. What is there to lose if we are going beyond what <br>
is required legally? I don't think there is anything to gain by <br>
fighting with other Free Software developers over copyright or credits.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Praveen Credit/attribution of someis a creative commons school product. It is more a byproduct of Fair use policies.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Copyright <year>: <Fontname> Authors . Licensed under SIL OFL <version> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The repo will have AUTHORS file and a CONTRIBUTORS file .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">the AUTHORS file will have Initial Copyright holders (esp, in fonts designer have a crucial role) . </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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