Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Bunch of new Fonts added to wishlist

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:13:03AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 15:58 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > >> Kerkis
> > >
> > > There is a Kerkis package for TeX (tetex-font-kerkis).  Nowadays, the
> > > author of this font publishes TTF and OTF files, quite suitable for
> > > on-screen display.  The license, however, is a bit ambiguous, possibly
> > > even a removal candidate.  http://iris.math.aegean.gr/kerkis/ (see the
> > > License subsection).
> > 
> > This one should have been passed through fedora-legal before
> > inclusion.
> 
> Definitely. That license is waaaay too vague as is.
> 
> We'd need to know if:
> 
> 1. Modification is permitted
> 2. Redistribution is permitted (this is implied, but not explicitly
> granted)
> 3. Redistribution in embedded documents is permitted
> 
> That's just for starters. The commercial copyright "advertising" clause
> is also painfully vague.
> 
> Someone motivated (and likely, fluent in greek), should email the
> copyright holders and suggest that they either clarify their license, or
> consider relicensing it with an established free license (e.g. the OFL).

I will contact the author to clarify the above.  Thanks for the 
guidelines.

-- Sarantis

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