Re: Rpmlint does not like my license

2009-11-08 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 11/09/2009 07:42 AM, Igshaan Mesias wrote: > Hi Everyone > > > I've packaged the M+ collection of fonts. I've not yet submitted a > review because I am unsure about what to label the 'License' tag in spec > file given its authors have simply put the license as follows: > > http://mplus-fonts.

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: can Libertine fonts be embedded in non-gpl application?

2009-09-22 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 09/19/2009 02:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/19/2009 08:17 PM, Brandon Casey wrote: >> >> I am interested in embedding the Libertine font within an application at >> work, so that this application can produce documents using the Libertine >> font. The target systems will not have the Libe

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-09-06

2009-09-08 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 09/08/2009 01:50 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 09:11 +0800, Yuan Yijun a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> The package wine-fonts is not mentioned, why? > > Excellent question, it certainly should have been, and I have no idea > why. Maybe it was not present in the source repo I

Re: About Farsiweb fonts

2009-09-06 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 09/06/2009 12:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Since Spot is fed up with FarsiWeb, I guess we > should just drop it from the wishlist to avoid re-opening the subject > later. I wouldn't say I'm fed up with FarsiWeb, it is simply that the situation has not changed. Those fonts are still derived f

Re: BPG Georgian Unicode fonts - packagers wanted

2009-02-03 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 2009-02-03 at 17:50:16 -0500, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Therefore, I'm doing a public call on Fedora lists, for someone to > package those, and prove Besarion Paata Gugushvili was right to trust > Fedora. Packaged. Awaiting review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483865 ~spot ___

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal issues with new font guidelines

2009-01-28 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 2009-01-28 at 10:08:01 -0500, "Nicolas Mailhot" wrote: > If we start worrying about this we may as well refuse to package all > the fonts that do not include full licensing information in their > metadata, since nothing would stop the hypothetical third-party to > re-distribute the font files w

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal issues with new font guidelines

2009-01-28 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 2009-01-28 at 8:41:39 -0500, "Nicolas Mailhot" wrote: > However if you don't you'll have to deal with the directory ownership > of the common font directory (I purposefully didn't want to open this > particular can of worm) and other common files. > > Also documentation can be bulky, especiall

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal issues with new font guidelines

2009-01-28 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On 2009-01-28 at 1:05:01 -0500, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > Of course, if the user really wants to, she can investigate the binary > RPM, and find pointers to the actual license, and go and find the > license. But we would not be redistributing the license with "each > copy". > > Please enlighten

Re: Font subsetting is patented?

2008-09-02 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 12 août 2008 à 15:41 +0300, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : > > Seems to me this way: > > http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6252671/description.html > > But IANAL... > > For this kind of question, ask fedora-legal or spot More font f

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-07-30 Thread Tom "spot"; Callaway
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:22 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2008/7/30 Vasile Gaburici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My lack of legal brain is confused on this. If URW doesn't change the > > license and it remains purely GPL, but the other contributors agree to > > re-license their parts as GLP+FontExcept

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-07-30 Thread Tom &quot;spot"; Callaway
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:13 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > URW's GPL release does not include the "font exception" additional > permission; indeed, it predates it. Yes, however, GPL is not incompatible with "GPL with font exception". It doesn't make sense to continue using GPL without the font ex

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-07-30 Thread Tom &quot;spot"; Callaway
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:59 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: > As you can see, there is no attempt to missattribute the work. The > only trouble is that GUST attempted to relicense the work under more > liberal terms, from GPL to LPPL/GUST. IMHO, the way is to convince URW > and the two individual con