Yes, dual licensing is a good legal pathway in this case. Jon
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from San Francisco, CA, United States