* 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 which case the normal and reasonable > distortion that occurs during such conversion shall be permitted; and > (b) additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts, so long > as the base set of glyphs is not modified or removed." > to > "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 that occurs during such conversion shall be permitted; and > (b) additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts." > and the rest stays the same.
>From a free software point of view, the problems remain. > Another suggestion would then be: > > "You may use the license that the Bitstream Vera fonts are distributed > with, available at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ (Section "Copyright"). > This license has already been approved by free and open source projects." If I were you, I would include the license verbatim (copyright on the license text permitting). > All in all, I think we stand that > http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html > is equivalent with > http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ (Copyright) > apart from 3b which does not allow the potential modification of the > base glyphs (characters). > Right? I think so, yes. > An argument why 3b should be amended to allow modification of the base > glyphs is that in practice there is little incentive to change existing > glyphs. Look at a few of Debian's gsfonts bugs to get a different picture. (The "base set of glyphs" is not defined by the license, so we have to assume that it applies to all characters.) In addition, removing glyphs is a very common activity. For example, if a copy of a font is embedded into a Postscript or PDF document, typically only the subset which is actually used in the document is included. As written, the license does not permit this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
