Ar an 18� l� de m� 5, scr�obh Gia Shervashidze :

 > i prepare Georgian unicode fonts (latin and cyrillic part based on your
 > published xfree fonts) under GPL license

 ...

 > IF acceptable,
 > 1. can you check the rightness of included GPL license (in case of possible
 > misunderstooding what should be changed OR what [right] steps must to done)
 > OR
 > 2. would it be better to include it in your source with your license?

I don't speak for the XFree86 project, but in the past, they have
refused to include GPL'ed software (which includes fonts) in their
base distribution. You've based your fonts on URW++'s Nimbus series,
which is GPLed; your Linux distribution may have installed these as
X11 fonts, but XFree86 didn't ship them. (GNU and Aladdin Ghostscript
does ship these fonts with its software, by the way.)

For a font to ship with XFree86, its licence must normally be only as
restrictive, or less restrictive, than the X Consortium licence. An
exception was made for the Lucidux series from Bigelow and Holmes,
because of the quality of these fonts, as I understand it. 

To get your Georgian support fonts shipping, you can either base them
on a font with a less restrictive licence, and supply them to XFree86
with that licence, or give them to URW, who should help with their
distribution under the GPL. 

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