Quoting Eric Bavier (2014-10-23 10:14:02) > > Andreas Enge writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 08:51:04PM +0400, Alex Kost wrote: > >> «In lieu of a licence: Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; > >> they may be opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and > >> redistributed.» > >> Is it OK to use "fsf-free" for this package? > > > > To me, this sounds like "public-domain". > > I was thinking the same. To me this sounds like "author does not understand licensing/copyright." It's pretty obvious the intent is some kind of simple permissive thing (whether that's a license or public domain), but it's not clear to me how much legal ambiguity there is. IANAL, but for certain entities, the ambiguity can be a problem (suppose, for example, you're a designer wanting to use this font for something, but you work somewhere with a strict legal department that doesn't think this qualifies as a license - you may be out of luck). You run into issues around certain packages, like sqlite-docs, where they end up being technically non-free because the developers decide "copyright is silly, I'm not going to deal with this." I sympathize, but... We ought to be careful about this one - maybe ask someone at the FSF about whether this meets their standards, and if not maybe ask the developer if they can put something less ambiguous on it.