On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:02:26PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Apparently, the fonts donated to GNOME by Bitstream are now available. > The current "beta-test" license is clearly non-free, but they are > proposing a license for the final release which seems to be DFSG-free. > I've included the license text below. Is this DFSG-free? If not, what > changes need to be made? It seems that this is a draft, so we might be > able to lobby for adjustments. > > The big problem that glares out at me is the "cannot sell by itself" > clause. I vaguely remember that d-legal considers that to be a silly > restriction that has no effect on freeness, but I could be wrong.
> The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but > no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by > itself. Seems to pass the "aggregate" bit clearly enough. I wonder how it's possible to more than one thing "by itself" ... -- Glenn Maynard