Alexander Shopov wrote: > Regarding GPL - it is a license for programs, not for other things.
I agree. In my first message asked about licensing in general, along with the definition of a Free font. But you mentioned GPL yourself, as did Sergey, so I just tried to follow up on how GPL would effect fonts, if that was the license to be applied. That's why I started another thread to avoid the discussion of licenses. > Sergej, I am really not prepared to argue for or against > licensing. Well... This thread started with the idea of Free font project. Someone has to decide on how the fonts would be licensed. Without a license the fonts would be under general copyright laws which are more restrictive than we want them to be, no? I think a license could also solve the problem with different countries having different copyright laws for fonts. That's fine with me if you don't want to participate in the debate :-) > I am a lowly member of this mail list for more than half a year, but > it seems to me licensing problems around here have been sorted out a > long time ago (decades). Perhaps, perhaps not. The type1 fonts that are included in XFree86 have different licenses. Some of them are more free than others. If Microsoft allowed to distribute it's fonts with XFree86, that wouldn't make their fonts more Free. XFree86 simply isn't about Free fonts, they distribute what they are allowed, so of course there are no such licensing problems to discuss. Correct me if I'm wrong. That this thread happens to be an XFree86 mailing list has to do with the fact there no other places to discuss similar topics as this, so I see nothing wrong with it. The fonts themselves (be that any font), or their licensing has very little to do with the XFree86 project. > This discussion is turning into a dialogue between the two of us, > and no other members actually show any interest in it. I hope you are mistaken :-) -- Sergej Malinovski [http://dreamer.nitro.dk] _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
