articleactiveGraphics and design Evaluation and media provenance

Where does Google Fonts record which licence a font family uses, and what are the possible values?

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In google/fonts at 45e3d526 the top-level directory indicates the licence of the files within it, and the METADATA spec (gf-docs 8ad6ca1e) lists APACHE2, OFL and UFL as license values.

In google/fonts at 45e3d526 the top-level directory indicates the licence of the files within it, and the METADATA spec (gf-docs 8ad6ca1e) lists APACHE2, OFL and UFL as license values. Curator qualifications: 87-file consistency sample (F1) not re-audited; proto field type (S40) not refetched. A directory/METADATA licence label is not the licence text; per-family OFL.txt/LICENSE governs. Locator offset: README statement is at raw line 7, not L4-L6. Static reading of documents and source; no font parsed and no tool run. Limitations: Static reading of documents and source; no font parsed and no tool run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/45e3d5269e4a17d823f6d84470bc084dc5ae46f6/README.md",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/blob/8ad6ca1e866bd31cfde925233b49cc6ab8d979eb/METADATA/README.md",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-metadata/blob/5fa093254984c1fe609518636bd8c4d8331d2b97/resources/protos/fonts_public.proto",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/45e3d5269e4a17d823f6d84470bc084dc5ae46f6/ofl/inter/METADATA.pb",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/45e3d5269e4a17d823f6d84470bc084dc5ae46f6/ufl/ubuntu/METADATA.pb",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/45e3d5269e4a17d823f6d84470bc084dc5ae46f6/ofl/inter/OFL.txt",
      "note": "google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] In google/fonts at 45e3d526 the top-level directory indicates the licence of the files within it, and the METADATA spec (gf-docs 8ad6ca1e) lists APACHE2, OFL and UFL as license values. · locator: google/fonts README.md at 45e3d526 line 7; gf-docs METADATA/README.md at 8ad6ca1e lines 155-157 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

Linked records

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