From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: X.org licenses
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:00:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9qq3fd0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302262245.30416.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:45:30 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> I started adding license information to the 184 packages in the X11
> distribution, and did not get very far... There is a list of several very
> similar licenses used, see
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html
>
> Number 5.11 is referred to as x11 in license.scm; is it okay to use x11 for
> all others as well?
I would say so, yes.
> font-adobe-utopia-* has this strange license:
>
> Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed typefaces
> is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice appears in all
> whole and partial copies of the software and that the following trademark
> symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified copies of the software:
> Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated
> Utopia (R)
> Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated
> The Adobe typefaces (Type 1 font program, bitmaps and Adobe Font Metric
> files) donated are:
> Utopia Regular
> Utopia Italic
> Utopia Bold
> Utopia Bold Italic
>
> There is no explicit permission to modify the fonts. On the other hand, the
> sentence speaking of "umodified copies" seems to imply that modified copies
> may also be distributed.
>
> The license of font-bh-* has the same ambiguity as far as modification is
> concerned:
>
> This is the LEGAL NOTICE pertaining to the Lucida fonts from Bigelow &
> Holmes:
The <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Software_blacklist> lists Lucida as
non-free, but does not mention the others. So I guess Utopia is OK, but
Lucida is not.
> Worst of all so far:
> font-daewoo-misc has the following COPYING:
>
> "Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Daewoo Electronics Co.,Ltd."
If there’s nothing else written, then it’s definitely non-free.
Thanks for the investigation!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-26 21:45 X.org licenses Andreas Enge
2013-02-26 21:48 ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-26 21:55 ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-26 22:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-02-26 22:20 ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-26 22:25 ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-26 22:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
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