ok I found this http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis/view?searchterm=font Which seems to provide more info about it
Ely Levy System group Computer Science Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Ely Levy wrote: > I'm not sure it's only PDF, > while in PDF and ps it's easy to see how it's a devertive work > I think html and the like might also be covered. > It would be more of linking like connection. > I looked around but I couldn't find a stright answer > > I did find the discussion on /. > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/17/2118203&from=rss > which is linking to the dicussion on the mailing list of scribus > a bit info but no real insight:) > > Ely Levy > System group > Computer Science > Hebrew University > Jerusalem Israel > > > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > Unless it was not intentional. > > I.e. the creator was not aware of this issue at the time and doesn't > > know about the exemption clause. > > If it was intentional then its deceiving, normaly people do not expect a > > word processor > > to turn their work into a GPLed work only because they created a PDF. > > > > Regards, > > tzahi. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:46 PM > > > To: Tzahi Fadida > > > Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > > Subject: Re: license problem with culmus fonts > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:24:13PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > > You are correct. > > > > I believe there were some attempts to contact the creator. > > > > Comments anyone? > > > > > > Just one in general - when a person creates something, it's > > > their decision how to license it, if at all. If you don't > > > like the license - go create your own. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Muli > > > -- > > > Muli Ben-Yehuda > > > http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
