Hi, Thoughts?
I think this is okay and worth encouraging; does anyone have any other suggestions for me to pass on to Emil? :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yakupov, Emil Date: 2010/1/7 Subject: RE: PT Sans licensing query To: Dave Crossland Hi Dave, Hope you enjoy you tour in New Zealand. I also just come back from skiing in Bulgaria. Returning to our licensing question. When I told about my concern I meant not only possible future changes on OFL, but mostly possible changes in our minds. First of all -- we are going to distribute the fonts via Microsoft. I'm asking MS to consider possibility to include the fonts into one of the next recommended updates and I'm not sure that they will agree to bundle the font with OFL which is not modifiable. We also think about other similar channels and while some of them like to have exactly OFL, I can imagine that some of them who offer commercial software will not. And also you are right Russian-English aspect is the main and the most critical. In any case we need to present the License that fully corresponds in terms and statements to Russian federal low in the area of protection of intellectual property -- Chapter 4 of the The Civil Code. I think that the best and most flexible way will be the following. We place on our site, on the site of Federal Agency and on the sites of local governments of Russian Federation the distributive set that is bundled with Russian license that will play the role of main EULA together with supplementary English version which will serve information purposes. I place the draft English version below for you information. At the same time, if you agree, we will write on our site that the fonts are also available under SIL OFL and those who would like to bundle the fonts with for example Linux systems may get the OFL version of the font by a special request. OFL version will have the link to http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_web. Best Regards Emil FYI ----- FREE FONT LICENSING AGREEMENT for the fonts with Original Name: PT Sans GRANT OF LICENSE ParaType Ltd. grants you the right to use, copy, modify the fonts and distribute modified and unmodified copies of the fonts by any means, including placing on Web servers for free downloading, embedding in documents and Web pages, bundling with commercial and non commercial products, if it does not conflict with the conditions listed below: - You may bundle the font with commercial software, but you may not sell the fonts by itself. They are free. - You may distribute the fonts in modified or unmodified version only together with this Licensing Agreement. You have no right to modify the text of Licensing Agreement. It can be placed in a separate text file or inserted into the font file, but it must be easily viewed by users. - You may not distribute modified version of the font under the Original name or а combination of Original name with any other words without explicit written permission from ParaType. TERMINATION & TERRITORY This license has no limits on time and territory, but it becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met. DISCLAIMER THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL PARATYPE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE. ParaType Ltd http://www.paratype.ru