Re: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-19 Thread Alex Kost
John Darrington (2015-01-18 18:58 +0300) wrote: [...] > It could become a real issue, if, say, the author dies, his hiers then decide > to > make it into a proprietary software. > > I think Guix is right to take the cautious approach. > > (What actually depends on these fonts? There are oodle

Re: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-18 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 07:15:01AM -0800, Jason Self wrote: Alex Kost wrote: > IIUC it applies to all the files. Quotation from > : > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > In lieu of a licence

Re: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-18 Thread Jason Self
Alex Kost wrote: > IIUC it applies to all the files. Quotation from > : > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > In lieu of a licence > > Fonts and documents in this site are not pieces of property or > merchandise items; they carr

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-17 19:28 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-16 23:37 +0300) wrote: >>> Ian Denhardt skribis: > Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: Thanks Ian for the update. I forgot the

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-18 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-17 19:28 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-16 23:37 +0300) wrote: >> >>> Ian Denhardt skribis: >>> Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: >>> >>> Thanks Ian for the update. >>> >>> I forgot the details, but IIRC Alex Kost was th

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-16 23:37 +0300) wrote: > >> Ian Denhardt skribis: >> >>> Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: >> >> Thanks Ian for the update. >> >> I forgot the details, but IIRC Alex Kost was the initial submitter. >> What can be done here? > > Yes it was

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-17 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-01-16 23:37 +0300) wrote: > Ian Denhardt skribis: > >> Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: > > Thanks Ian for the update. > > I forgot the details, but IIRC Alex Kost was the initial submitter. > What can be done here? Yes it was me, so if I understand correctly,

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ian Denhardt skribis: > Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: Thanks Ian for the update. I forgot the details, but IIRC Alex Kost was the initial submitter. What can be done here? Ludo’.

Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-14 Thread Ian Denhardt
Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: Forwarded message from Donald R Robertson III via RT (2015-01-14 11:15:14): > Hello again, > > Unfortunately the discussion with the author has broken down. They will > not change the license, as they do not believe in licensing. This > legally puts u

[gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2014-12-16 Thread Donald R Robertson III via RT
> [i...@zenhack.net - Tue Nov 18 22:29:05 2014]: > > (sending this to both the fsf and the guix-devel mailing list) > > Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-16 16:09:33) > > Ian Denhardt skribis: > > > > > Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-13 15:15:37) > > >> Did you hear from them? > > > > > > Final