From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Denhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ttf-symbola. Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:27:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20141116192756.22656.57197@vulcan.local.tld> References: <87iojcdp53.fsf@gmail.com> <20141023062654.GB6636@debian> <8761farhzp.fsf@gmail.com> <20141023173605.466.47994@rook> <87wq7qatee.fsf@gmail.com> <20141024065236.7150.29212@vulcan.local.tld> <87vbmi6emu.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="===============1545849554791068582==" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq5Ug-0008TG-Pd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:28:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq5Uc-0003uv-GS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:28:18 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vbmi6emu.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost --===============1545849554791068582== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2014-11-13 15:15:37) > Did you hear from them? Finally, yes. Here's the full response: Quoting Donald R Robertson III (2014-11-11 10:57:53) > Thank you for contacting us about this, and I apologize we couldn't get > back to you sooner. > = > > [ian@zenhack.net - Fri Oct 24 03:28:57 2014]: > > = > > Hi, > > = > > There's a patch that was recently submitted to the guix-devel[1] mailing > > list which adds a package for the symbola[2] font, and there's some > > question as to the licensing situation around it. > > = > > All we've found is the line at the bottom of that page: > > = > > > In lieu of a licence > > = > > > Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be > > > installed, embedded, opened, edited, modified, regenerated, > > > posted, packaged and redistributed. George Douros > > = > > It's fairly obvious that the *intent* is for this to be free, but we're > > concerned it may not qualify due to legal ambiguities (and the "in lieu > > of a license" is not encouraging). > > = > > Is this in fact sufficient for it to be included in a free distribution? > > If not, we'll likely try to contact the author to see if he's willing to > > put something more suitable on it; is there a specific license > > appropriate for fonts that would effectively formalize the statement > > above (and fix the problem)? > = > It does seem clear that the author is looking to license the fonts > freely, but the statement is a bit problematic as you saw. In the font > world, much like in proprietary software, 'license' generally means a > document that takes away a users rights and ensures that the copyright > holder retains complete control over the work. It is likely that he just > meant that the fonts were not under such restriction, but it would be > nice to fix the issue. There's also the fact that the license is > directed to fonts 'on this site'; so we would need to put something > along with the fonts themselves to make sure that users understand what > rights they are given. > = > The best course of action would be to contact the author to try and > clear up these issues. As you can see from our license list > , however, there > isn't a font license that we could really recommend that would cover the > same ground as what the author has outlined. But we could work with him > to try and get a better licensing situation. If you think it is worth > pursuing, please let us know and we will contact them > = > Thanks again for contacting us about this issue. > = > > = > > Thanks in advance for your advice, > > = > > -Ian > > = > > [1]: guix-devel@gnu.org > > [2]: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > > = > > = > -- = > Sincerely, > = > Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D. > Copyright & Licensing Associate > Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor > Boston, MA 02110, USA > Phone +1-617-542-5942 = > Fax +1-617-542-2652 > = > --- --===============1545849554791068582== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: signature Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"; charset="us-ascii" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJUaPq8AAoJEPZUuMfUyjy427IP+wYQD1QEP5E2eXt9/nwgwRAv 15vDiPgSla6K1IsRtlEQvV5SpMokYJ9RgIXDuHgNkKbwvNV+soZ2wzaqhe7hIT37 UQrK9h4LZBKTovS/JA4OAMsh6iM5aUwrWBQTR2uVgY9yIM77196TwkmfrRcLRLWX QeQfJO9A4xaDENqstheGLE6JBMNLXUM1QxCmLYUZ0MnLkEm49lZnjvWxMI2QaJm7 PGvvLuRcX4WRNvubjtFO9Lh1M5tPcUTLrfsYHO8zlcmTIfeERMQiAd07xJfnhT7C lcng50jXLTrq38J2uG92++kZ4lAr7KzLGb4E56+1O5hYBqcTDqarlEjPW3nddR8v CIHfh9ukMXK3Q5WEc+JivBC6LvIxSG1fznMfRNL+vtVeb5y7mHDPj7ZeLQnAkmbH TlTTjx61GRwv2pVCiJas2BOJZnebaqxtlfAK+LOiLFshnVcB562cQW+qM98L81yi RM5FfjWwha0OWf0Y/S9ST61OBdQoPlMYc4/URmtITFcqbURTlHV2UOm7nZx59BoV kHIM7fmeHVWIY5RyNtZoZUuIbIZ5zip/P/yEN/UpXB5EOsI90/IPV2ca//+W1Lus /X5oecMYU/wsNcJ8em+qWPHapUUbD0bgu1KYYDQNZ0kNNxrbzNJij30A5fbvA7Vv +XE7iVFX1NiwyuJNpyPf =wegP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --===============1545849554791068582==--