Re: Upcoming gdouros-*-fonts license change and subsequent complications

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 11:58:29PM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:30 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 02:55:49PM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > In general, a license may contain termination clauses, based on time or
> > whatever other conditions. But this particular "license" that you quoted
> > in your original mail doesn't contain anything like this, so imo it
> > is valid forever.
> 
> I can only hope upstream feels the same way about it.

Upstream's feelings don't decide here. What really counts in the
interpretation by law, which in practice means interpretation by our
legal team.

Zbyszek
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux