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

[Shriramana Sharma]

On 07/20/2011 10:22 AM, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
> So i think it better to release source as it is, it will not harm anything.
>
> Second options i think
> 1) Edit .ttf file, save it as .sfd
> 2) generate ttf from saved .sfd

Hello -- while I understand that point about no promises being made for 
fitness for a particular purpose, the above instructions you give for 
pseudo-producing an SFD form (which is considered to be a "source" form) 
from the TTF form (which is considered to be a "compiled" form) 
themselves clearly indicate that the so-called sources distinct from the 
TTF are easily produceable by available tools. Maybe one can compare 
this to WAV versus FLAC -- the former is easily produceable from the 
latter ergo distributing material as the latter alone should not be in 
conflict with the GPL.

Given this, what is the point in creating faux-sources from the TTF 
file, and why can't distributing the TTF alone be considered GPL-compliant?

-- 
Shriramana Sharma