Re: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-09-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:37:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Simos Xenitellis: The StixFonts project started 10 years ago by several publishing houses of academic journals, with the aim to create fonts for mathmetical publications. These fonts, StixFonts, are nearing completion

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-09-01 Thread Jordan Abel
Hope to have answered to your question. I am sorry but I did not succeedin asking Berkeley's Regents for a license change. Didn't they issue a blanket license change for _all_ code owned by them under the old bsd license?

Re: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-09-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:37:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: | The Font Software may not be modified or altered in any way, except | that: (a) the Fonts may be converted from one format to another | (e.g., from TrueType to Postscript), in which case the normal and | reasonable distortion

Re: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-09-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sven Luther: Clearly non-free. I can understand why people think that such a clause is a technical necessity (reproducible layout), but it still violates DFSG clause 3. What about a clause mandating that the layout size or whatever it is called, remains the same for existing fonts ? I

Re: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-09-01 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Florian Weimer wrote: * Sven Luther: Clearly non-free. I can understand why people think that such a clause is a technical necessity (reproducible layout), but it still violates DFSG clause 3. What about a clause mandating that the layout size or whatever it is called, remains the

Re: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-09-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simos Xenitellis: In materialising this into a concrete suggestion, do you guys suggest something like: Change 3. The Font Software may not be modified or altered in any way, except that: (a) the Fonts may be converted from one format to another (e.g., from TrueType to Postscript), in