[Lohit-devel-list] ~OT: Publishing a font under the GPL

[Shriramana Sharma]

Hello. I realize this is *slightly* OT for this list as it doesn't 
directly concern Lohit fonts, but I hope it's OK here since you people 
have experience in publishing fonts under the GPL. Please maintain the 
CC to my friend Anshuman Pandey who is not on this list.

We are working on a font for an ancient Indic script and intend to 
release it under the GPL. So far work on the font has been done using 
Metafont but obviously a TTF is needed for wider usage with WYSIWYG 
editors like LibreOffice.

However we feel that the Metafont sources aren't so "clean" and contain 
many idiosyncrasies of the author so are not so great for immediate 
publication. But we would like to publish the TTF.

Isn't releasing a font as a TTF sufficient for placing it under the GPL? 
I mean, a TTF font can be directly edited without much trouble unlike 
compiled C-code, right?

BTW another question: while GPL/OFL permit commercial usage of the font 
and we are fine by that, would it be possible for us to request/require 
being credited in such a publication using the font?

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Shriramana Sharma