[Lohit-devel-list] Relicensing Lohit fonts

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 16:06:26 UTC 2011


Ah, good catch. Assume for the moment that "Lohit" would be designated
as the "Reserved Font Name"; I'll discuss with my colleague Pam
Chestek.

- RF

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:45:12PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I kindly note that you don't specify if the Reserved Font Name restriction will
> be applied.
> 
> Does this mean it is not being used for the Lohit fonts?
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
> On 15 September 2011 15:43, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:40:02PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
>     > Under the circumstances specific to this project, I believe we can
>     > relicense to OFL subject to any objection by any past contributor to
>     > the fonts. If there is no objection, we will proceed with relicensing
>     > under OFL in due course.
> 
>     Since no one has objected, and we have only heard positive statements
>     about this, I hereby declare the Lohit fonts to be relicensed, as to
>     all their past and present versions released by the Lohit fonts
>     project, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.  As to how to handle the
>     indication of this change of licensing, I will leave that to Pravin
>     and the project participants.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Richard E. Fontana
>     Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel
>     Red Hat, Inc.
> 
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> 
> 
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
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