Re: lilypond COPYING ChangeLog

2006-10-13 Thread Juergen Reuter

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:


If you modify this font, you may
+extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
+statement from your version.



I.e., effectively, we change the licence for the font to BSD-style? 
(That's fine with me, but I would like to point out this explicitly.)


Greetings,
Juergen


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Re: lilypond COPYING ChangeLog

2006-10-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys

Juergen Reuter schreef:

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:


If you modify this font, you may
+extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
+statement from your version.



I.e., effectively, we change the licence for the font to BSD-style? 
(That's fine with me, but I would like to point out this explicitly.)


No, if you change the font, you're still obliged to put changes under 
GPL again. This exception means that PDF files don't fall under GPL.


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Re: lilypond COPYING ChangeLog

2006-10-13 Thread Juergen Reuter

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:


Juergen Reuter schreef:

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:


If you modify this font, you may
+extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
+statement from your version.



I.e., effectively, we change the licence for the font to BSD-style? (That's 
fine with me, but I would like to point out this explicitly.)


No, if you change the font, you're still obliged to put changes under GPL 
again. This exception means that PDF files don't fall under GPL.




Mmmh, I am not a lawyer, so I may be totally wrong, but ... sounds to me 
like LGPL is what are you looking for?


Greetings,
Juergen


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