Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > I started adding license information to the 184 packages in the X11 > distribution, and did not get very far... There is a list of several very > similar licenses used, see > http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html > > Number 5.11 is referred to as x11 in license.scm; is it okay to use x11 for > all others as well?
I would say so, yes. > font-adobe-utopia-* has this strange license: > > Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed typefaces > is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice appears in all > whole and partial copies of the software and that the following trademark > symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified copies of the software: > Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated > Utopia (R) > Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated > The Adobe typefaces (Type 1 font program, bitmaps and Adobe Font Metric > files) donated are: > Utopia Regular > Utopia Italic > Utopia Bold > Utopia Bold Italic > > There is no explicit permission to modify the fonts. On the other hand, the > sentence speaking of "umodified copies" seems to imply that modified copies > may also be distributed. > > The license of font-bh-* has the same ambiguity as far as modification is > concerned: > > This is the LEGAL NOTICE pertaining to the Lucida fonts from Bigelow & > Holmes: The <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Software_blacklist> lists Lucida as non-free, but does not mention the others. So I guess Utopia is OK, but Lucida is not. > Worst of all so far: > font-daewoo-misc has the following COPYING: > > "Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Daewoo Electronics Co.,Ltd." If there’s nothing else written, then it’s definitely non-free. Thanks for the investigation! Ludo’.
