On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Florian Jung <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> As far as permission to use it the current font under GPL2, I think >>>>> Han-Wen >>>>> and Jan need to give that permission. >>>>> >>>> >>>> i assume Han-Wen and Jan also read that mailing list, so i'm asking for >>>> permission to use the current font :) >>>> >>> >>> I believe that *everybody* who has worked on the feta fonts would need >>> to give that permission. You can find this list by looking at the git >>> changelog messages for those files, but I do not recommend going >>> further with this. I really recommend that you either use the old >>> GPLv2 feta fonts, or use GPLv3 (possibly 3+) for your application. >>> >>> It's unfortunate that copyright law gets in the way like this, but it >>> does. >>> >> >> Well, only if anyone decides to make an issue of this, and it's not >> like we claim any sort of rights over images of the font when we put >> them on paper or screen. I think you can just go ahead with muse2. >> >> I'd recommend using freetype for the rendering instead btw, as you'll >> be more flexible wrt symbol sizes on screens of different device >> resolutions. >> > > may i read that as a "feel free to use the font, if someone decides that he > doesn't like that, he will kindly ask you to use another font instead of > killing you immediately" :)?
This reads as: "please stop fussing over tiny differences in GPL versions; if you have a good idea, just do it." I don't think we can claim GPL rights over bitmaps of the font anyway. Then again IANAL, and neither is anyone else on the list. I did however, write the biggest portion of the feta code over which we are agonizing. > thanks for your answer :) > flo > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [email protected] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
