On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 01:30:04PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Restrictions on Alteration. You may not rename, edit or create any > > derivative works from the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, other than subsetting > > when embedding them in documents. > > This automatically makes it not DFSG free since we cannot alter the > original in any form, not even for our own use. This obviously refers to > the fonts themselves.
The DFSG is not terribly relevant, since the best I'm hoping for is to get this into non-free. > Is creating a .deb of the fonts a derivative work? I think that > Microsoft's lawyers might think so, which is what counts in the this > case. I like to think that my life isn't directly affected by what Microsoft's lawyers think. What counts is what a judge would think. Mind you, I hate getting sued as much as the next guy. Avery
