Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-09-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 29.08.2013, 19:49 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: > > Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I > > wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? > > Any news on this? Rogerio?

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hey Rogerio et al., Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: > Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I > wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Any news on this? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.d

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2013, 10:44 +0200 schrieb roucaries bastien: > Could you ask also for the fontforge source and not like the > postscript font the resulting file ? We should be careful and not request too much at once from them. I once had a short mail with RMS about that topic and the FSF

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-27 Thread roucaries bastien
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: >> Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I >> wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? > > Yes, please do so! Maybe we have some chance

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: > Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I > wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Yes, please do so! Maybe we have some chance of success as a Linux distributor requesting relicensing of one

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Fabian and others. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Dear Rogerio et al., > >> Thank you very much for your review. I just sent a letter to the GUST to >> see how they approached URW to change the license of the Base 35 fonts. >> Let's hope that they answer soon. > >

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Rogerio et al., > Thank you very much for your review. I just sent a letter to the GUST to > see how they approached URW to change the license of the Base 35 fonts. > Let's hope that they answer soon. this was Tue, 20 Apr 2010. Did you ever get a response to your letter to GUST and has your

Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-21 Thread Walter Landry
Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Walter and other people. > > On Apr 13 2010, Walter Landry wrote: >> Re: Software Licence for URW Garamond Fonts >> >> To whom it may concern, >> >> I am a software developer associated with the Debian project [1], an >> association of individuals who work together to

Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Walter and other people. On Apr 13 2010, Walter Landry wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > P.S.: Please, as I am not a native speaker of English, feel free to > > correct my grammar, style or anything that would improve the text. > > Here you go. Feel free to ignore any or all of my suggestio

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: > Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > > Hi Walter, > > > > There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along > > the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive. > > > > At the end of the day upstreams make up

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Khaled Hosny: > Fonts are art, many font designer are very concerned about the > authenticity of their designs and wouldn't allow modified version to > carry the names of their fonts, it is very valid concern. There's also the more pressing concern that altering widths will lead to changed line

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Walter Landry
Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Walter Landry wrote: >> Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >>> Hi Walter, >>> >>> There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along >>> the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive. >>> >>> At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Walter Landry
Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:20:30PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: >> Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >> > BTW one of the goals we have in the Debian fonts team is to work to >> > reduce the big duplication of fonts in various packages in our archive: >> > there is no absolute need for

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Walter Landry wrote: > Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >> Hi Walter, >> >> There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along >> the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive. >> >> At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind about how they >> license their ow

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Khaled Hosny [100416 10:15]: > Fonts are art, many font designer are very concerned about the > authenticity of their designs and wouldn't allow modified version to > carry the names of their fonts, it is very valid concern. I doubt there are people caring much more for the quality of their wor

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:20:30PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > > Hi Walter, > > > > There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along > > the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive. > > > > At the end of the day upstreams make up

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-15 Thread Walter Landry
Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Hi Walter, > > There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along > the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive. > > At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind about how they > license their own creation but allow me to e

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-15 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
[...] >> But then I found this page >> >> http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html >> >> which says >> >> By the way, URW did not donate these fonts under the GPL out of >> their own hearts. Artifex paid good money for them, and donated them >> out of a mix of self-interest and a

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-15 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Walter Landry wrote: > Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >> Paul Wise wrote: >>> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you >>> would like them to choose. >>> >>> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD, >>> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those a

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-14 Thread Walter Landry
Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: >> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you >> would like them to choose. >> >> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD, >> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable, >> the SIL

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-14 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Paul Wise wrote: > I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you > would like them to choose. > > I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD, > MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable, > the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromi

Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Walter Landry
Rogério Brito wrote: > P.S.: Please, as I am not a native speaker of English, feel free to > correct my grammar, style or anything that would improve the text. Here you go. Feel free to ignore any or all of my suggestions. Cheers, Walter Landry Re: Software Licence for URW Garamo

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, pabs. 2010/4/14 Paul Wise : > I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you > would like them to choose. That's very good. But how should the request be phrased? Should it be a formal letter? Since you are a native English speaker, can you suggest any rewording? Other

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you would like them to choose. I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD, MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable, the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromise between font foundry needs

About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Below is a draft of a letter that I intend to send to (URW)++ to try to get them to release the URW Garamond No. 8 fonts in a license that is free according to the DFSG. This move was suggested to me by Khaled Hosny, a member of the Arabic TeX community. I am open to comments and cr