On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just want to let you know that I got a request from two guys that >> state that they are developing a drum sheet music editor. They ask me >> if I can give my approval to you for switching the Feta font license >> from GNU to GNU+OFL, such that their code need not be open source. >> They also refer to a discussion in the context of the Waltrop meeting. > > Ugh. As far as I understood the discussion, the idea was to help other > free software projects not under the GPL, not to support non-free > software. I don't have any copyright in Feta fonts myself i think, but > if the sole currently known reason for relicensing was to help non-free > software, I'd recommend against it. It would be against the spirit of > the GNU project I believe.
The idea behind this is twofold: first, the GPL does not make sense for a font. Second, the font can be used independently of LilyPond, and thus it is in a sense a standalone work, the use of which does not create a derivative work. Although, this project in particular is not GPLd, questions about using Feta have popped up from time to time before from others, and the OFL is a way to answer all these questions in one fell swoop. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [email protected] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
