Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 03 Apr 2001 21:29:34 +0200, on Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello], Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DS> what if X 5.0 only supports OpenType and BDF fonts, and Y&Y isn't > DS> interested in conve

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 03 Apr 2001 21:29:34 +0200, on Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello], Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DS> what if X 5.0 only supports OpenType and BDF fonts, and Y&Y isn't > DS> interested in conve

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > What are they? They need serious bugs filed against them. > > > > > > e.g. doc-rfc ? > > > > The GNU General Public Licence itself may not be modified. I hope this > > doesn't mean ... > > Copyright licenses as legal documents may not be modified ex

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:37:12AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > > What are they? They need serious bugs filed against them. > > > > e.g. doc-rfc ? > > The GNU General Public Licence itself may not be modified. I hope this > doesn't mean ... Copyright licenses as legal documents may

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > What are they? They need serious bugs filed against them. > > > > > > e.g. doc-rfc ? > > > > The GNU General Public Licence itself may not be modified. I hope this > > doesn't mean ... > > Copyright licenses as legal documents may not be modified e

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > > > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > > > least a half dozen packages in main that are unmodifiable, that were > > > put there knowing that) > > > > What ar

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:37:12AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > > What are they? They need serious bugs filed against them. > > > > e.g. doc-rfc ? > > The GNU General Public Licence itself may not be modified. I hope this > doesn't mean ... Copyright licenses as legal documents may

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > > > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > > > least a half dozen packages in main that are unmodifiable, that were > > > put there knowing that) > > > > What a

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I share your hope, but I cannot help noticing that the number of > available scalable fonts is currently the greatest weakness of the > Free Software and Open Source community (communities?). However, adding these fonts did nothing to help the prob

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:43:10PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden Robinson: > > BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's > BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that > BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant > BR> (font|e

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I share your hope, but I cannot help noticing that the number of > available scalable fonts is currently the greatest weakness of the > Free Software and Open Source community (communities?). However, adding these fonts did nothing to help the pro

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Branden Robinson: BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant BR> (font|executable|data file), to include a disclaimer in the BR> copyright info about th

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DS> Does it cover Latin-3? Yes, they do. DS> If it doesn't, then there's a number of characters that could be DS> added in minutes with the right tools to provide for support of DS> Esperanto, Maltese and other languages, but we can't, because of DS> the license. We share your concern, and we di

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:43:10PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden Robinson: > > BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's > BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that > BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant > BR> (font|

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread James Troup
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:46PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > > least a half dozen packages in main that are

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:46PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > least a half dozen packages in main that are unmodifiable, that were > put there knowing that) Wh

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Branden Robinson: BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant BR> (font|executable|data file), to include a disclaimer in the BR> copyright info about t

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > As you can imagine, the inclusion of the Lucidux fonts into the > XFree86 source tree didn't go without a fair amount of hesitation. It's not my intent to imply that XFree86's decision was either incorrect, or flawed in process.

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > We concluded that the main reason why we insist on the right to modify > software is the need to maintain it. After carefully checking the > technical, as opposed to artistic, quality of the Lucidux fonts (it is > excellent, tha

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DS> Does it cover Latin-3? Yes, they do. DS> If it doesn't, then there's a number of characters that could be DS> added in minutes with the right tools to provide for support of DS> Esperanto, Maltese and other languages, but we can't, because of DS> the license. We share your concern, and we d

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Me (Juliusz Chroboczek): JC> I think we need the DFSG to explicitly provide an exception for JC> fonts and artwork. Branden Robinson: BR> I disagree. To do so would introduce far too much gray area, in my BR> opinion, and get Debian involved in even more licensing flamewars than we BR> currentl

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread James Troup
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:46PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > > least a half dozen packages in main that ar

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:46PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > While the issues on unmodifiable non-software stuff in Debian are > not as clear-cut as Branden has made them out to be (I know of at > least a half dozen packages in main that are unmodifiable, that were > put there knowing that) W

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > As you can imagine, the inclusion of the Lucidux fonts into the > XFree86 source tree didn't go without a fair amount of hesitation. It's not my intent to imply that XFree86's decision was either incorrect, or flawed in process

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > We concluded that the main reason why we insist on the right to modify > software is the need to maintain it. After carefully checking the > technical, as opposed to artistic, quality of the Lucidux fonts (it is > excellent, th

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Me (Juliusz Chroboczek): JC> I think we need the DFSG to explicitly provide an exception for JC> fonts and artwork. Branden Robinson: BR> I disagree. To do so would introduce far too much gray area, in my BR> opinion, and get Debian involved in even more licensing flamewars than we BR> current