Looks like the licensing confusion was an accidental oversight. ~tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: License questions about HVD Comic Serif Pro Font Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:01:30 +0100 From: Hannes von Döhren <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> Hi Tom, I am sorry for the confusion. I changend the License from to textfile to the CCA 3.0 but it seems i forgot to delete the conflicting parts. Thank you for your email. I will lchange this. And: You can use the HVD Comic Serif and include it in Fedora, if you want. Best regards, Hannes ·············································· HVD Fonts ·············································· Hannes von Döhren Schillerstraße 34 10627 Berlin/Germany T: +49 (0)173 357 93 76 hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> www.hvdfonts.com ·············································· Am 20.12.2010 um 19:29 schrieb Tom Callaway: > Hannes von Döhren (who whomever at HVD Fonts receives this email), > > Recently, there has been interest in including the HVD Comic Serif Pro > Font Family in Fedora (a popular distribution of Linux). One of the > requirement for a Font to be included in Fedora is that it must be > available under a Free License (a license that permits unrestricted use, > modification, and distribution). > > Initially, it appeared that HVD Comic Serif Pro was under a Free > License, specifically, the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported > License. > > However, in the Readme.txt file included in the .zip file, the following > terms are also listed: > >> This typeface may not be modified in any way unless it contains an >> unmodified copy of this text file and attributes Hannes von Döhren in >> the font metadata. > > and > >> Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, >> in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Original or >> Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed >> and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the >> above copyright notice and this license > > Both of these restrictions conflict with the CC-Attribution license, and > make the overall licensing terms Non-Free. > > Specifically, it is noteworthy that the CC-Attribution license requires > attribution, so these additional terms are somewhat redundant. > > I would like to know if it would be possible for these additional terms > found in Readme.txt can be waived or removed, so that we can include > this font in Fedora. > > Thanks, > > Tom Callaway > > == > Fedora Project, Legal _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
