Is it worth trying to be stricter on that front? On Mar 22, 2017 10:34 AM, "Richard Fontana" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:25:29AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > This would seem to be problematic: > > > > (3) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in > > original or modified versions, may be sold by itself. > > That is a type of limitation, the most notorious historical example of > which was in the SunRPC license. It *should* be problematic, and if > this were a license for software hopefully we'd treat it as > problematic. > > But there is a sort of unwritten principle in free software and open > source that such restrictions are acceptable in font licenses. One > completely unsatisfying attempt to justify this (which ought to apply > to software licenses like SunRPC too), the 'Hello World' excuse, is > found at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL > > The real reason why these things are tolerated in font licenses is > pure (historical) unacknowledged expediency. Notice that a similar > condition is in the Bitstream Vera license too. So be it. > > Richard > > > > > > > > On 22 March 2017 at 10:11, Randy Barlow <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I am interested in packaging the Hack Font for Fedora, but I notice > > > that it seems to have what may be a custom license: > > > > > > https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/blob/master/LICENSE.md > > > > > > Is this license acceptable for Fedora? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > legal mailing list -- [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen J Smoogen. > > _______________________________________________ > > legal mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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