On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Following this discussion: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/EC6I35ILFICKY5W5XTHYJC6UH36B2UQS/ > > it was suggested that I alert the good folks on this list. > > To summarize the situation: a couple of days ago, George Douros > updated a number of his fonts and at the same time he placed them > under a new, restrictive license (until now, these fonts were in the > Public Domain). You can see all that here: > http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > > This affects the following packages: > > gdouros-asea-fonts > gdouros-avdira-fonts > gdouros-aegean-fonts > gdouros-musica-fonts > gdouros-aroania-fonts > gdouros-symbola-fonts > gdouros-textfonts-doc > gdouros-aegyptus-fonts > gdouros-akkadian-fonts > gdouros-analecta-fonts > gdouros-alexander-fonts > gdouros-anaktoria-fonts > > The takeaway of a long discussion I had with him is that he does not > want to remove the non-commercial clause of his license text (or any > of the other restrictions), but at the same time he does not mind us > carrying and redistributing the fonts, which is contradictory to say > the least. > > In his last message he said that he would be open to negotiating > another license with Fedora. I think I have exhausted any goodwill I > might have had with him over the years and I'm not fit to discuss this > issue any further with him. If anyone feels this is a goal worth > pursuing, that's how things stand at the moment. > Wouldn't this affect new stuff? If this is retroactive, that'd be a big problem... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
