From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font. Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:39:18 +0300 Message-ID: <87zj9eblw9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87twzocgmz.fsf@gnu.org> <1421594100.13814@bluehome.net> <20150118155830.GA991@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDIAb-0008Ql-2x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:39:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDIAW-0000VD-06 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:39:29 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::232]:58194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDIAV-0000Up-OG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:39:23 -0500 Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u14so29855529lbd.9 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:39:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150118155830.GA991@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:58:30 +0100") 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington (2015-01-18 18:58 +0300) wrote: [...] > It could become a real issue, if, say, the author dies, his hiers then decide to > make it into a proprietary software. > > I think Guix is right to take the cautious approach. > > (What actually depends on these fonts? There are oodles of fonts today. Can it > be substituted by something else?) Nothing depends on Symbola font, so it may be safely ignored. I just use it all the time, so I proposed this package several months ago. -- Alex