Hi, On Fri, 06 May 2011 20:36:01 +0200 Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalin...@sil.org> wrote: > The project-specific and organisation-specific M+ license is really a > BSD-like (BTW it is missing a translation for non-Japanese speakers in > the source tree).
You can see M+License in English in LICENSE_E file, as http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#license > I don't know if this is intentional or not but the copyleft aspects of > two of the three licensing models have been ignored here: > this merge breaches section 5 of the OFL. > And also breaches the IPA Font Licensing agreement article 3, 1. 3) I want to confirm, section 5 of the OFL has strong term "must not be distributed under any other license" - then, does merging OFL font with M+ also breach it? IPAFont license doesn't say such, it says "The Recipient must license the Derived Program under the terms and conditions of this Agreement." I think IPA with M+ doesn't conflict with this term. > (not that the IPA font license is particularly readable... but still). ;) (I wonder why they didn't choose OFL. Maybe they want to promote their organization, but anyway) > Joining the team like Christian suggested sounds like a good way to help > do that and take advantage of the collective skill of pkg-fonts. I asked Sasaki-san to send mail to this list if he has font package related issue. (Yes, "Given enough eyeballs...", four was not enough I thought) > I would respectfully suggest contacting the authors of these fonts to > get them to consider licensing compatibility issues and maybe sending > their patches upstream for inclusion in the mainline of Inconsolata. > > Or maybe there are other sets of glyphs from another font that offers > the same coverage and quality in a more compatible way for appropriate > merging? Maybe we can take glyphs from M+ to Inconsolata, if - most of users would think it's better, and - merge OFL with M+ does not breach OFL section5 (or M+ author re-license M+ font under same OFL). > I freely admit that my knowledge of Japanese is sadly close to zero (I > can barely write my own first name) but I'm confident Hideki-san or > other Japanese speakers in our team can provide further help with these > issues and upstream advocacy if they wish. Looking at all the work in > our repository, Hideki-san surely has been quite successful (!) > interacting with Japanese designers to get fonts released under licenses > Debian users can safely use. Me? :) I just take some fonts from upstream, and asked two or three upstream authors/organizations to consider to change their license as DFSG-free one. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
