On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:28:53PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > The biggest Problem is the sentence "The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed, > not sold." i think.
This is a legal fiction -- though it happens to be one that even Free Software licensors attempt to use to their advantage -- so I don't think it's particularly problematic. Since your package would be going in non-free anyway, I suggest you just let CD vendors and so forth worry about it. There are plenty of other packages in non-free they have to scrutinize anyway. > - You may modify your copy or copies of the fonts or any portion of it, > provided that you also meet all of these rules: > > a) Do not alter in any way alphamumerics(eq. a-z, 1-9) contained in the > font. An exception is converting between formats, here is allowed the > nominal distortion that occurs during conversion from second order to > third order quadratic curves (TrueType to Postscript) and vice versa. > > b) Extra characters may be added, here it is allowed to use curves from > alphanumerics in fonts under same license. > > c) It is allowed to modify and remove analpahbetics (punctuation, > special characters, ligatures and symbols). > > d) The original font name must remain but can be augmented. (ie. Blue > Highway Cyrillic, Blue Highway ANSI, Blue Highway Fudge) > > e) Character mapping may be altered. > > f) If the kerning information is damaged or discarded please state that > in the user notes or documentation. > > g) All modifications must be released under this license. Actually, his license isn't that far from a Free Software license. I get the feeling that a blend of some of the requirements of the GNU GPL, plus some aspects of the Apache Software License and/or Artistic License may actually accomplish the goals he seeks *and* qualify his font(s) as Free Softwre. But, to answer your question, the license doesn't look like a problem for non-free. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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