[Bug 165900] Review Request: hunkyfonts

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Summary: Review Request: hunkyfonts


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165900





------- Additional Comments From sarantis at cnl.di.uoa.gr  2005-08-19 04:45 EST -------
Hi, I am glad we can work it out.  Since you are working on repackaging your
fonts, please consider the following things:

Using *GPL as a license for fonts is somewhat murky, since it applies to code
and not content (such as fonts or a picture).  I don't know how LGPL can be
dealt with, but with the GPL one should issue an exception to make the documents
produced with this font _not_ fall under the GPL (see
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException). 
Nevertheless, if you insist on releasing the fonts under LGPL, we have to ask
legal, if it is permitted (to change the license), and what consequences it
might have.

I would think that there would be no License needed, and the copyright text of
the original Bitstream fonts extended to cover your additions and changes to the
fonts.  For example the Dejavu folks have released their additional changes to
the public domain (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License). 
Another course of action would be to maintain the same copyright text as
Bitstream, but with you as the copyright holder.  These are simple enough
copyright additions, that I can understand and approve.

Sorry to bother you with legalese, but it is essential to keep our bases
covered.  Thanks for your cooperation.


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