Hi Zbigniew, On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 10:44:41PM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: >> - If it is indeed incompatible, would trying to convince him to adopt >> a dual license scheme be the best course of action? > You know this probably better. Have you tried explaining why we have > the requirements we have, to preserve the freedom to use packages, etc? I have and I also have stressed the difference between us and a for-profit font repository, but I think I will need to revisit the topic… >> - If the new license prohibits us from distributing the fonts, do we >> need to drop the packages from Fedora or can we continue to use their >> current versions? > We can continue to use them. With fonts the "degradation" over time is > small (mostly we'd be missing new additions), so it should be OK to > have the frozen version for many years. My concern is if he can retroactively apply the new license to the older versions of the fonts. Is this a valid concern or is it not how licensing works? Regards Alex _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
