Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mer 14/08/2002 à 20:48, Ben Armstrong a écrit : I'd like to educate about DFSG-free licensing. Unfortunately, it's going to be rough sledding unless I can find a license that is likely to address the problems fontographers typically face when deciding how to license their work (like: How

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:43:06PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: I think something like the LPPL would merely do the trick. Modifying the font would be allowed, but would also require a name change. After looking over the LPPL, it looks like it would do the job. Do you know of any precedent

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:03:12PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: I think something like the LPPL would merely do the trick. Modifying the font would be allowed, but would also require a name change. After looking over the LPPL, it looks like it would do the job. Do you know of any precedent

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: So now, the list of packages in violation of non-free font licenses: ... feh - contains 'helmetr' (Sun)[1] gozer - contains 'helmetr' (Sun)[1] ... xplanet - contains 'helmetr' (Sun)[1] ... Footnotes: ... [1] I have been

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Erich Schubert
Now would be a really good time for people to email authors of decent TrueType freeware fonts to see if they can be convinced to put their fonts under a DFSG-free license if anyone is interested in doing that. For the author of ttf-larabie-*, i tried that when i made these packages. The

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:54:37PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: For the author of ttf-larabie-*, i tried that when i made these packages. The licence we got does NOT fulfill all DFSG requirements, but is already very liberate. I don't think we'll get further than that. So please don't press

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ben How am I going to deal with it when someone changes my font to Ben something ugly and it reflects poorly on my skills as a Ben fontographer? How is this at all different from the same question asked about program source code? In that context, it is part of the rationale for the Q license,

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:45:06PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Ben How am I going to deal with it when someone changes my font to Ben something ugly and it reflects poorly on my skills as a Ben fontographer? In that context, it is part of the rationale for the Q license, AFAIK.

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:36:45PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:45:06PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Ben How am I going to deal with it when someone changes my font to Ben something ugly and it reflects poorly on my skills as a Ben fontographer? In that context,

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: [1] I have been told that the OpenOffice fonts are not free and were pulled from CVS a short while ago. This puts ttf-openoffice into question and any other package that contains a font included in ttf-openoffice. I

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:35:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: [1] I have been told that the OpenOffice fonts are not free and were pulled from CVS a short while ago. This puts ttf-openoffice into question and