I would intend to submit an ecologically-compliant TTF font, made by a Dutch company. According to its author, its main purpose is to save ink when printing, so I think it could be useful to use and adopt it.
The problem seems to be its problematic license: this company claims the software to be distributed under GPL, but it adds some restrictions in additional paragraphs who somewhat forbid some behaviours (mainly non-commercial and intellectual property clauses: it can't be sold at all, it can't be developed separately, its underlying technique can't be used in other fonts), without any prior authorization: http://www.ecofont.eu/assets/files/Ecofont_licence.pdf Furthermore, this font is based upon Bitstream Vera, who already has a partly GPL-incompatible license: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts (it can't be sold alone, etc..). According to the paragraphs' legal meaning, it would seem to apply all GPL license's clauses, including free($) and free(libre) redistribution, _except_ for above limitations. On the other hand it can be maybe considered a "derivative work" (being based on Bitstream Vera), so it most likely has to comply with B.V. license, as well. B.V. can be modified but you definitely must change its name; for this one, it is not clear if it can or cannot be modified/adapted/patched at all (I'd say even slight modification is prohibited, no matter if you change name or not). It's simply a mess .... :-// Is this font, nonetheless, acceptable for SlackBuilds.org? P.S. BTW debian distribution's maintainers have radically rejected it, but we all know they are really strict in what is or is not 100% free software as in freedom to be included and maintained in that distro. In this case, being a font and not requiring special measures to be installed, I believe maybe freedom can be considered at a different meaning and floor, compared to a so-called 'traditional' software. But, obviously, the decision is up to you, admins. -- GNU/Linux * Slackware 'current' GNU/Linux * Bluewhite64 'current' LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
