On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 19:03, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
Jeff Licquia wrote:
Apparently, the fonts donated to GNOME by Bitstream are now available.
The current beta-test license is clearly non-free [...]
Why is GNOME getting involved with non-free software at all? Why not just
get
un bacio
Joe Drew wrote:
Probably because Bitstream refuse to operate under any model but this
one (i.e., to not let substandard fonts get used as the official ones),
and they're more interested in getting things done than in blue-sky
idealism?
So you don't really know, you're just guessing? Sticking
I think this is non-free (see my comments inline), but I'm forwarding to
debian-legal for their opinion.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:50:43PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
JasPer Software License
Copyright (c) 1999-2000, Image Power, Inc. and the University of British
Columbia, Canada.
Copyright
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:08, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
Why didn't GNOME choose to get involved with these fonts when
Bitstream releases them as Free Software fonts?
Because GNOME negotiated with Bitstream to make these fonts free, which
Bitstream is going to do. That is to say, GNOME's
Looking at this license at first glance it made me
uncomfortable... but nothing struck me as particularly non-free. I was
hoping if there was a problem, some one would point it out, so thanks :)
PS Please Cc any replies to me, I'm not subscribed to debian-legal.
* Brian M. Carlson ([EMAIL
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Inc., the University of British Columbia, Michael David Adams, or any
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Joe Drew wrote:
Because GNOME negotiated with Bitstream to make these fonts free, which
Bitstream is going to do. That is to say, GNOME's involvement is the
reason these fonts are free, not the other way around.
So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying in exchange for
distributing the
retitle 181969 RFP: jasper -- Image library for the JPEG-2000 Part 1 Standard
thanks
Ok, thanks for the heads up. I'm going to make change this into an
RFP, since I was interested in this package before, but it's non-free
nature has made me distinctly less interested :)
* Henning Makholm ([EMAIL
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying in exchange for
distributing the non-free fonts on GNOME's FTP site, Bitstream will
ultimately release the fonts under a DFSG-free[1] license?
As far as I can tell, the vera fonts are not
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