----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "b ghose" <b.ghose@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Michal Nowak" <mnowak@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:48:40 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Mukti fontset license On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michal Nowak <mnowak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ping? >> >> On 10:11 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Fedora Linux distribution considered packaging Your Mukti fontset, >>> but we found out that the license is GPLv2+, which we consider as >>> excellent for software but not for fonts. >>> >>> The problem we see is that when you embed the font inside PDF file >>> then the whole document has to be licensed as a GPLv2+ too. This is >>> thought to be controversial. >>> >>> Do you think it can be possible to change the license to e.g. 'GPLv2+ >>> + Font Exception'? The Exception would be this one: >>> >>> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException >>> >>> Which just says that just embedding the font does not mean that you >>> have to license your file (e.g. book) as GPLv2+ too. >>> >>> Let me know whay you think. >>> >>> Looking forward to your reply. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Michal > > Sayamindu, can you kindly contact the author of Mukti and coordinate this? > I have tried to do this earlier - did not get any response from him. Will try again. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- Michal Nowak BaseOS QE (Apps/Toolchain sub-group) Engineer _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
