Hey,
I took a look at the license of culmus fonts and I saw
they are GPL, something felt wrong to me, what does it mean
a font is GPLed?how does that affect things like PDF or ps of the document
which might have the font inside?or latex documents. So I went to check
around and found this:
from the FSF faq:
How does the GPL apply to fonts?
Font licensing is a complex issue which needs serious consideration.
The following license exception is experimental but approved for general
use. We welcome suggestions on this subject -- please write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any
other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU 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.
As culmus doesn't have this exception it seems a serious threat to any
documents I give that uses culmus fonts and that I don't want to be GPLed
It's even more serious threat about the documents I write under GFDL
because those licenses are not compatible.
Even with the exception the experimental part worries me when it's about
documents which I really dont' want someone to be able to claim they are
GPLed later on...
I know there are other fonts which are GPL so what gives?Am I missing
something basic that I should be aware of?
Ely
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