Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-19 Thread Claus Färber
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: * Raul Miller: I don't see anything in the GPL which requires source for things which have been left out of the program being required. The subsetted font is not the preferred form of doing modifications to the font. You don't distribute the

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raul Miller: Anyway, this isn't the case I'm really interested in. And if there's real source code, it should be reasonably clear that the GPL is impractical. I don't really understand this. I suspect I'm not thinking what you're thinking real sourced code means. A METAFONT program,

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-17 Thread Raul Miller
I don't really understand this. I suspect I'm not thinking what you're thinking real sourced code means. On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:18:37AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: A METAFONT program, for example. Ok, but in that context it's pretty clear that the font is not the program. In that

Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Florian Weimer
I've been asked for advice regarding copyleft (GPL-like) font licensing. Without special exceptions, the GPL is not a suitable license for fonts because it is common practice to embed fonts (or subsets of fonts) into PDF documents (and other document formats). In this scenario, the GPL would

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: I've been asked for advice regarding copyleft (GPL-like) font licensing. Without special exceptions, the GPL is not a suitable license for fonts because it is common practice to embed fonts (or subsets of fonts) into PDF

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Without special exceptions, the GPL is not a suitable license for fonts because it is common practice to embed fonts (or subsets of fonts) into PDF documents (and other document formats). In this scenario, the GPL would

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raul Miller: Why would subsetting be a problem? I don't see anything in the GPL which requires source for things which have been left out of the program being required. The subsetted font is not the preferred form of doing modifications to the font. Anyway, this isn't the case I'm really

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Raul Miller
Why would subsetting be a problem? I don't see anything in the GPL which requires source for things which have been left out of the program being required. On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:53:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: The subsetted font is not the preferred form of doing modifications

Re: Copyleft font licensing

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Maybe fonts could be licensed under the GPL plus the following exception? | As a special exception, if a document file embeds Type 1, TrueType, | OpenType or bitmap fonts derived from this source code, these fonts | do not by