On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:17:46 -0600, Márcio Silva wrote: > Hi all i'm Márcio Silva, one of the Parabola distro hackers and ...
Hello, I'm Luke Shumaker, and I'm also a contributor the the Parabola GNU/Linux-libre distribution. Márcio Silva wrote: > i would propose you a license for URW fonts with special exception > ... to be used in our main distro logo [1], but i reported a issue > about it on our labs [2] > > [2]:https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/797 As I commented on the linked issue report, it is my belief that the current licensing of the URW++ core 35 fonts does not cause a licensing problem for our logo. However, I still recomend (and humbly request) that you follow Márcio's recommendation to switch to the FSF-recommended GPL font exception: The current URW++ AGPL font exception, as relayed by Ghostscript[0][1]: > As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font > programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that > contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless > of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. [0]: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core35-fonts.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE [1]: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE The FSF-recommended GPL font exception, with GPL replaced with AGPL[2]: > As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, > and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the > document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to > be covered by the GNU Affero General Public License. This exception does not > however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered > by the GNU Affero General Public License. If you modify this font, you may > extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not > obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception > statement from your version. [2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
