From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: 26588@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26588: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add Bitstream Vera.
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:00:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmrfb9f9.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3ujleoj.fsf@lassieur.org>
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Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello! Thanks for bringing this up.
>>
>> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>>
>>> * guix/licenses.scm (bitstream-vera): New variable.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +(define bitstream-vera
>>> + (license "Bitstream Vera"
>>> + "https://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts"
>>> + "\"The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package
>>> +but no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by
>>> +itself.\"
>>> +
>>> +The license is non-free because of the above clause, but a Guix package is a
>>> +\"larger software package\"."))
>>
>> Instead of "officially recognizing" these licenses, which are unlikely
>> to be re-used and ostensibly non-free, perhaps we could have a
>> "fsdg-compatible" license procedure similar to "fsf-free". What do you
>> think?
>
> Well, bitstream-vera is used twice (if we include 0ad). But anyway
> that's okay. I should specify in the fsdg-compatible 'comment' argument
> that it is non-free, right? Or maybe all fsdg-compatible would be
> non-free?
0ad could include (package-license font-bitstream-vera) instead. I also
came across this font in "Hedgewars", so it's fairly prevalent.
The default comment of the "fsdg-compatible" (or fsdg-free as Debian
describes it[0]) license procedure should say something about not
necessarily being free, but passing FSDG criteria; but it's good to have
more specific comments in the actual packages.
Anyway, just an opinion, but I think such a procedure would be nice to
have :)
[0] https://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-bitstream-vera
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-21 14:46 bug#26588: Add some (non-free?) font licenses Clément Lassieur
2017-04-21 14:48 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add Bitstream Vera Clément Lassieur
2017-04-21 14:48 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 2/3] licenses: Add Arev Clément Lassieur
2017-04-21 14:48 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: font-bitstream-vera: Change license to Bitstream Vera Clément Lassieur
2017-04-21 15:30 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-04-26 9:13 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add " Marius Bakke
2017-04-29 9:57 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-04-29 14:00 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-05-01 11:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-05-01 11:01 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 1/2] licenses: Add new meta-license fsdg-compatible Clément Lassieur
2017-05-01 11:01 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: font-bitstream-vera: Change license to fsdg-compatible Clément Lassieur
2017-05-01 14:53 ` bug#26588: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add Bitstream Vera Marius Bakke
2017-05-01 19:37 ` Clément Lassieur
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