From kartik at debian.org  Thu Jun 25 05:00:57 2009
From: kartik at debian.org (Kartik Mistry)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:30:57 +0530
Subject: [Lohit-devel-list] Lohit Fonts Copyright..
Message-ID: <85c01b290906242200t3e24ebd4g3c4b6719347d2620@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

I am looking for clarity for Lohit Font's [1] Copyright while
packaging it for Debian Project.

1. Fonts are licensed under GPLv2 - This is fine.
2. Who owns copyright for Lohit fonts?
3. While looking at fonts (for example, lohit-gu) copyright shows as following:
Copyright (c) 2003, Automatic Control Equipments, Pune, INDIA. - under
General Public License

Please clarify #2 and #3.

Thanks a lot for good work!

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/wiki

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From petersen at redhat.com  Fri Jun 26 01:44:20 2009
From: petersen at redhat.com (Jens Petersen)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:44:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Lohit-devel-list] Lohit Fonts Copyright..
In-Reply-To: <85c01b290906242200t3e24ebd4g3c4b6719347d2620@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1508397752.228701245980660720.JavaMail.root@zmail02.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>

Hi Kartik,

> I am looking for clarity for Lohit Font's [1] Copyright while
> packaging it for Debian Project.

> 2. Who owns copyright for Lohit fonts?
> 3. While looking at fonts (for example, lohit-gu) copyright shows as
> following:
> Copyright (c) 2003, Automatic Control Equipments, Pune, INDIA. -
> under General Public License
> 
> Please clarify #2 and #3.

IANAL, but let me say what I know on this and maybe someone who knows more details in Pune or Rahul B can fill-in and correct any mistakes that follow.

Red Hat purchased the fonts and the right to release them under GPL: they were initially packaged under the generic name fonts-indic.
Since then more languages and glyphs and many fixes/changes to the original fonts have been made: nearly all those changes and additions were made by Red Hat and so should be copyright.

I think the license headers need to be updated to reflect that Red Hat made changes to the fonts with the years those changes were made: something like

Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Red Hat Inc.

if not already there.

Otherwise I am sure what the issue is or what more needs to be clarified.

Thanks, Jens
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