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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:04:14 +0300
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2015-01-17 19:28 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2015-01-16 23:37 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net> 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, Symbola font should not
>> appear in the distribution (because of the license problem), right?
>
> Does the license problem applies to all the files or just some?
>
> If it makes sense, we could simply remove the offending files.

IIUC it applies to all the files.  Quotation from
<http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/>:

--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 carry no trademark, copyright, license or other market tags; th=
ey are offered free for any use.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

--=20
Alex