On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:43:10PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden Robinson: > > BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's > BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that > BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant > BR> (font|executable|data file), to include a disclaimer in the > BR> copyright info about the software's modified status, etc. > > Would it be poor etiquette to forward a digest of this discussion to > Charles Bigelow?
Not at all. I'm be more than happy to discuss this with him and see if
there is a possible license that satisfies both the DFSG and Bigelow and
Holmes's artistic integrity.
The only part of the Lucidux font license at issue is the following:
The Font Software may not be modified, altered, or added to, and in
particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may not
be modified nor may additional glyphs or characters be added to the
Fonts, except that composite characters composed of two or more
characters in the Fonts may be created using the seac (Standard
Encoding Accented Character) Type 1 operator.
If it were the case that the font could be modified, altered, or added to
in any respect other than the above, *BUT* the font would then have to be
referred to by a different name (while still maintaining the B&H copyright
notice and license terms, and providing prominent notice of the font's
modified status), that, for instance, would satisfy the DFSG. The Apache
Software License does something similar and has been accepted satisfying
the DFSG for many years.
That's just one possibility. With a bit of imagination I'm sure there are
many others.
> It was a conscious decision that I should not join the Debian project.
> There is only so much time that I can spend on Free Software, and I am
> not willing to have the duties of a Debian maintainer cut on my work
> upstream.
I can certainly sympathize with that. Just the task of packaging
XFree86 for Debian seems to expand to consume all resources I make
available for it.
> Thank you for your suggestion, Branden, but this is way more than what
> I am willing to do in Debian. I can only hope that somebody more
> involved within Debian than I am will agree with me and go through the
> necessary process; failing that, I hope that somebody, perhaps even
> you, will get the fonts under discussion into Non-Free.
Since this mail is going to the debian-x mailing list (among other places),
let me publicly ask for a volunteer.
It should be a pretty straightforward process to package these fonts.
Retrieve the following directory from an official XFree86 X402src-2.tgz
file:
xc/fonts/scaled/Type1
Delete the following files:
Copyright
c0419bt_.afm
c0419bt_.pfb
c0582bt_.afm
c0582bt_.pfb
c0583bt_.afm
c0583bt_.pfb
c0611bt_.afm
c0611bt_.pfb
c0632bt_.afm
c0632bt_.pfb
c0633bt_.afm
c0633bt_.pfb
c0648bt_.afm
c0648bt_.pfb
c0649bt_.afm
c0649bt_.pfb
cursor.pfa
That should leave you with:
COPYRIGHT.BH
COPYRIGHT.IBM
Imakefile
UTBI____.afm
UTBI____.pfa
UTB_____.afm
UTB_____.pfa
UTI_____.afm
UTI_____.pfa
UTRG____.afm
UTRG____.pfa
cour.afm
cour.pfa
courb.afm
courb.pfa
courbi.afm
courbi.pfa
couri.afm
couri.pfa
lcdxmo.afm
lcdxmo.pfa
lcdxmr.afm
lcdxmr.pfa
lcdxro.afm
lcdxro.pfa
lcdxrr.afm
lcdxrr.pfa
lcdxso.afm
lcdxso.pfa
lcdxsr.afm
lcdxsr.pfa
fonts.scale
Edit fonts.scale and the Imakefile to remove all references to the c0* and
cursor fonts.
That should be just about it. Please be sure to follow the Debian X font
policy when creating the package. I suggest "xfonts-scalable-nonfree" for
the package name.
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Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a
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