On 3/29/11 12:10 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Florian Jung <florian.a.j...@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> As far as permission to use it the current font under GPL2, I think
>>>>>> Han-Wen
>>>>>> and Jan need to give that permission.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i assume Han-Wen and Jan also read that mailing list, so i'm asking for
>>>>> permission to use the current font :)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe that *everybody* who has worked on the feta fonts would need
>>>> to give that permission. You can find this list by looking at the git
>>>> changelog messages for those files, but I do not recommend going
>>>> further with this. I really recommend that you either use the old
>>>> GPLv2 feta fonts, or use GPLv3 (possibly 3+) for your application.
>>>>
>>>> It's unfortunate that copyright law gets in the way like this, but it
>>>> does.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, only if anyone decides to make an issue of this, and it's not
>>> like we claim any sort of rights over images of the font when we put
>>> them on paper or screen. I think you can just go ahead with muse2.
>>>
>>> I'd recommend using freetype for the rendering instead btw, as you'll
>>> be more flexible wrt symbol sizes on screens of different device
>>> resolutions.
>>>
>>
>> may i read that as a "feel free to use the font, if someone decides that he
>> doesn't like that, he will kindly ask you to use another font instead of
>> killing you immediately" :)?
>
> This reads as: "please stop fussing over tiny differences in GPL
> versions; if you have a good idea, just do it."
>
> I don't think we can claim GPL rights over bitmaps of the font anyway.
> Then again IANAL, and neither is anyone else on the list. I did
> however, write the biggest portion of the feta code over which we are
> agonizing.
According to the FSF, this is correct. The font face is not copyrightable.
But outlines may be.
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis
Sounds like Han-Wen's answer is perfect.
Carl
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