On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
GPL and Apache licenses are not compatible with LGPL. Whether the distinction is meaningful for fonts is debatable, but I think it's better to follow the same guidelines as the rest of the code.
The Symbola license looks OK, though you'd of course need to give proper credit even if not required.
Thanks a lot for comment, that helps a lot.
It's also not clear that copying the glyphs is the right approach, as opposed to for instance setting up font replacements.
Setting up font replacements seems won't work for Wingdings/Windings2/Winding3/Webdings/MT Extra, for example, I didn't find any font which is possible to replace Wingdings.
Like http://unicode.org/~asmus/web-wing-ding-ext.pdf and http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html said, while there are some glyphs in Unicode standard look similar to Wingdings glyphs, but Wingdings itself doesn't follow unicode standard, for example, 0x21 in Wingdings is a pencil, but in Unicode, U+0021 should be the character '!'. The idea here is to use the Unicode Dingbat range character pencil (U+270F) to replace Windings pencil (0x21)
By copying the glyphs and creating an alternative font, we can not only also solve the Wingdings font problem for Wine applications, those alternative fonts could be freely reused by other Linux application like WPS Office Suite and LibreOffice.