License
fontina is free software. You may run it for any purpose, study how it works, change
it, and redistribute copies with or without your changes, under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License or, at your
option, any later version. The SPDX expression is GPL-3.0-or-later.
It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Copyleft is a deliberate choice, not a default. A permissive license would let a proprietary font manager take this code, ship it inside a paid tier, and give its users none of the freedoms this project is built to protect. The reasoning is set out in ADR 0007, which supersedes ADR 0004.
Contributions are accepted under the same terms. There is no contributor licence agreement and no copyright assignment: contributors keep their copyright, which is what makes the license hard for any single party to revoke later.
Documentation
The manual — the man page, the Texinfo manual, and the documents in this repository —
is under the GNU Free Documentation License
version 1.3 or later, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy is in docs/COPYING.DOC.
Fixture fonts
The test fonts in fixtures/ keep their own licenses, all of them free:
| File | License | Source |
|---|---|---|
Amiri-Regular.ttf |
OFL-1.1 | google/fonts ofl/amiri |
BricolageGrotesque[opsz,wdth,wght].ttf |
OFL-1.1 | google/fonts ofl/bricolagegrotesque |
Nabla[EDPT,EHLT].ttf |
OFL-1.1 | google/fonts ofl/nabla |
SourceSerif4-Regular.otf |
OFL-1.1 | adobe-fonts/source-serif |
inter-latin-400-normal.woff |
OFL-1.1 | Fontsource @fontsource/inter |
inter-latin-400-normal.woff2 |
OFL-1.1 | Fontsource @fontsource/inter |
Only fonts under a free license — OFL-1.1, Apache-2.0 or CC0 — may be added.
Your fonts
fontina applies the same question to the fonts it indexes. fontina list --free shows
only the fonts whose licenses grant you the four freedoms; fontina license gives the
verdict and the reason for every font in your library. Where a license has never been
ruled free, the program says so rather than guessing.
OS/2.fsType embedding bits are reported and never enforced. They are the font file’s
assertion about itself, not a term of any license, and acting on them would mean
restricting you on your own computer.
Dependencies
Every crate compiled into a release is listed, with its license, in the SPDX software
bill of materials attached to that release. cargo deny enforces the allowed license
list in continuous integration; every entry on it is GPLv3-compatible.
This web site
The text and markup of this site are part of the repository. The prose is under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later, as above; verbatim copying and distribution of any page are permitted in any medium, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
Trademarks
No trademark is claimed on the name. GNU Unifont, a bitmap font that shares this project’s former working name, is a separate project of the Free Software Foundation and is not connected to it.