OCRA and OCRB license clarification about fonts HOT 6 CLOSED

@raphaelbastide do you want to directly submit a pull request for removing them?

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Maybe we can solve the issue first? Maybe Michael Demetriou author of the commit knows more about those licenses.

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cc @qwazix then. Do you know anything about that ^?

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They are indeed blurry, but after a careful read of them, without being a lawyer, I believe that the specific fonts I included are free software. The OCR-A official website explicitly mentions public domain (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font/) and

The version in this package descends from a set of Metafont
definitions by Norbert Schwarz of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum,
bearing dates ranging from 1986 to 2010. He originally
distributed it under a "non-commercial use only"
restriction but has since released it for unrestricted use
and distribution. See the README file for more details.

is a quote from the pdf that accompanies OCR-B, which I feel covers it. I cannot find the mentioned README file.

I also like to think that if it's good enough for debian packagers (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/texlive-fonts-extra) it should cover us too.

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Great, that’s a good thing to see that those great fonts are in the public domain.
I didn’t know about that :-)
Thank you @qwazix for this precision. I guess this issue can be closed.

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@raphaelbastide Thanks for being thorough about this!

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