I found that simply declaring the output of a font project to be under the "public domain - share and enjoy" license is the simplest and most easy to understand solution that will encourage most contributions and will waste the least time with such discussions. The word "enjoy" is the most relevant part of this license. That's what we did with the misc-fixed fonts and nobody ever complained.
I believe that de-facto free software is not controlled in any way by licences, but by whoever puts most work into the product. Many of these abstract and semi-informed license discussions are not relevant in practice. Licences matter only if people plan to sue each other, which as far as I know hasn't happened since the legendary BSD tape driver issue over a decade ago that led to the BSD licence being written. Reality check: First there has to be a font at all before discussiing obscure and irrelevant legal thingies becomes justified, if at all. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
