Ely Levy wrote: > 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 >
There was a discussion (in Hebrew) about it at whatsup (following the slashdot story): http://whatsup.org.il/article/4340 -- Meir Kriheli http://mksoft.co.il ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
