On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote:
> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > Hi Walter,
> >
> > There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along
> > the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive.
> >
> > At the end of the day upstreams make up
* Khaled Hosny:
> Fonts are art, many font designer are very concerned about the
> authenticity of their designs and wouldn't allow modified version to
> carry the names of their fonts, it is very valid concern.
There's also the more pressing concern that altering widths will lead
to changed line
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
>> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>>> Hi Walter,
>>>
>>> There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along
>>> the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive.
>>>
>>> At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind
Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:20:30PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
>> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>> > BTW one of the goals we have in the Debian fonts team is to work to
>> > reduce the big duplication of fonts in various packages in our archive:
>> > there is no absolute need for
Walter Landry wrote:
> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along
>> the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive.
>>
>> At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind about how they
>> license their ow
* Khaled Hosny [100416 10:15]:
> Fonts are art, many font designer are very concerned about the
> authenticity of their designs and wouldn't allow modified version to
> carry the names of their fonts, it is very valid concern.
I doubt there are people caring much more for the quality of their wor
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:20:30PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > Hi Walter,
> >
> > There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along
> > the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive.
> >
> > At the end of the day upstreams make up
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> There are obviously varying needs and preferences (prejudices?) along
> the licensing spectrum but IMHO your reply is very reductive.
>
> At the end of the day upstreams make up their own mind about how they
> license their own creation but allow me to e
[...]
>> But then I found this page
>>
>> http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html
>>
>> which says
>>
>> By the way, URW did not donate these fonts under the GPL out of
>> their own hearts. Artifex paid good money for them, and donated them
>> out of a mix of self-interest and a
Walter Landry wrote:
> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>> Paul Wise wrote:
>>> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
>>> would like them to choose.
>>>
>>> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
>>> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those a
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Paul Wise wrote:
>> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
>> would like them to choose.
>>
>> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
>> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable,
>> the SIL
Paul Wise wrote:
> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
> would like them to choose.
>
> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable,
> the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromi
Hi, pabs.
2010/4/14 Paul Wise :
> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
> would like them to choose.
That's very good. But how should the request be phrased? Should it be
a formal letter? Since you are a native English speaker, can you
suggest any rewording? Other
I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
would like them to choose.
I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable,
the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromise between font foundry needs
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