weird, did anyone email them to try and get them to use OFL? last thing we need is more fragmentation.
Jon 2009/12/29 Andrey V. Panov <pa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>: > On 28 декабря 2009, Andrey V. Panov wrote: >> ParaType type foundry has released PT Sans typeface http://fonts.ru/public/ >> (the text in Russian, it leads to zip archive). Its license which could be >> found in "TTF names" is mostly identical to OFL 1.0. The fonts contain >> Latin and Cyrillic including extended. >> > > In fact their license is based on OFL 1.1. They removed PREAMBLE and > DEFINITIONS > sections, added "has no limits on time and territory, but it" to TERMINATION > section ("TERMINATION & TERRITORY" in their version) and replaced "Copyright > Holder(s)" with "ParaType" through the text. > > Here is ParaType's license: > > --------------------- > Copyright © 2009 ParaType Ltd. > with Reserved Names "PT Sans" and "ParaType". > > FONT LICENSE > > PERMISSION & CONDITIONS > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy > of the font software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, > and sell modified and unmodified copies of the font software, subject to the > following conditions: > > 1) Neither the font software nor any of its individual components, in original > or modified versions, may be sold by itself. > > 2) Original or modified versions of the font software may be bundled, > redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains > the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as > stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate > machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those > fields can be easily viewed by the user. > > 3) No modified version of the font software may use the Reserved Name(s) or > combinations of Reserved Names with other words unless explicit written > permission is granted by the ParaType. This restriction only applies to the > primary font name as presented to the users. > > 4) The name of ParaType or the author(s) of the font software shall not be > used to promote, endorse or advertise any modified version, except to > acknowledge the contribution(s) of ParaType and the author(s) or with explicit > written permission of ParaType. > > 5) The font software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be > distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any > other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not > apply to any document created using the Font Software. > > TERMINATION & TERRITORY > This license has no limits on time and territory, but it becomes null and void > if any of the above conditions are not met. > > DISCLAIMER > THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS > OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, > TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL PARATYPE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, > DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, > INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT > OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT > SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE. > > > -- > Andrey V. Panov > http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/ > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from San Francisco, CA, United States
