On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 18:10 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > Sendt: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:25 +0900 > Fra: Paul Wise > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > Just an idea I got after reading about Ecofont on GuardrianUnlimited > > > earlier today. As a nice little publicity nicety, Debian could be the > > > first distribution to ship with this new environmental friendly and > > > printing cost reducing font. > > > > Too late to add new packages to lenny, it is in deep freeze. > > There is always a "next next release". :-)
aka 'squeeze' > > > Learn more about the Ecofont at http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html > > > > > > The font is licensed under GPL. > > > > I heard (in Freenode ##fonts) it was derived from DejaVu, which would > > make this an illegal relicensing. I also heard that it is GPL + > > restrictions, which would make it non-distributable even if the > > relicensing was legit. > > The license document says "The Ecofont is distributed under GPL and based > upon Bitstream Vera." It should be fine. Where is this license document? Anyway, the problem is the Bitstream Vera license being GPL-incompatible. The FAQ also mentions it is also based on Microsoft's Verdana, so who knows where they have taken glyphs from and how legal it is. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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