Sergej Malinovski wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > It would be real nice if the fonts had the same license as XFree86. > > That is, _NOT_ GPL. > > Let's suppose GPL could be applied (so to speak) to fonts. What > exactly would you not like about GPL'ed fonts?
Limitation on the derived fonts. For example, if someone creates a font with Latin set of glyphs and then someone else comes and adds the Cyrillic glyphs then the result is: with GPL: the resulting font including the Cyrillic glyphs gets covered by GPL as well with (BSD or MIT or X)-style license and I believe LGPL too: the addition does not get under GPL and its author may do with the resulting font whatever he wants Of course these GPL effects may be a good thing too. But there are ways to work around the GPL requirements as well - for example, make the Cyrillic glyphs into a separate font and combine these two fonts into one at loading time. Another bad thing about GPL is that changing the license afterwards is difficult. Any GPLed piece would contaminate the result, so theoretically all the contributors have to be contacted. On the other hand, going in the reverse direction, from a BSD/MIT/X license to GPL is easy: just add a GPLed piece and the whole combination gets contaminated. -SB _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
