From: Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add cool-retro-term.
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 13:38:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170503133847.6921d200@mykolab.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a86x393i.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:59:29 -0700
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Petter <petter@mykolab.ch> writes:
>
> > What do we do about the fonts without licensing info?
>
> Unfortunately, "no license" is not a free license:
Yeah, I kinda figured that one just after I sent the e-mail :)
>
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#NoLicense
>
> "If source code does not carry a license to give users the four
> essential freedoms, then unless it has been explicitly and validly
> placed in the public domain, it is not free software."
>
> The FSDG states:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
>
> "License Rules
>
> 'Information for practical use' includes software, documentation,
> fonts, and other data that has direct functional applications. It does
> not include artistic works that have an aesthetic (rather than
> functional) purpose, or statements of opinion or judgment.
>
> All information for practical use in a free distribution must be
> available in source form. ('Source' means the form of the information
> that is preferred for making changes to it.)
>
> The information, and the source, must be provided under an appropriate
> free license. We evaluate specific licenses and list our determinations
> in our license list, with separate sections for licenses that are
> suitable for software, documentation, fonts, and other useful works. If
> such a work is released under a disjunction of licenses, the work is
> free as long as at least one of its licenses is free; the system
> developers should follow the terms of the applicable free license(s)
> when they distribute and/or modify it."
>
> The same page also has a section on fonts:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Fonts
>
> "The licenses below apply to an instantiation of a design in a computer
> file, not the artistic design. As far as we know, an implementation of a
> design is always copyrightable. The legal status of the artistic design
> is complex, and varies by jurisdiction."
>
> To ensure that this contribution meets these guidelines and respects the
> freedom of the system's users, I think we cannot include a font for
> which we cannot find an associated license. If we can find a license
> for the font and it is a free license, then we could include it.
>
Thanks for this information! Licensing is a weak field for me.
I've made a mental change from blacklisting fonts to whitelisting.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-03 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-23 11:55 [PATCH] gnu: Add cool-retro-term Petter
2017-04-23 19:18 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-23 21:12 ` Petter
2017-04-23 23:31 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-24 12:30 ` Petter
2017-04-26 3:36 ` Eric Bavier
2017-04-26 18:09 ` Petter
2017-04-28 1:47 ` Eric Bavier
2017-04-28 12:10 ` Petter
2017-04-30 20:59 ` Chris Marusich
2017-05-03 11:38 ` Petter [this message]
2017-05-02 13:51 ` Eric Bavier
2017-05-03 12:37 ` Petter
2017-05-05 3:03 ` Eric Bavier
2017-05-05 22:58 ` Petter
2017-05-08 9:39 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-04-30 20:47 ` Chris Marusich
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