Le 2018-04-08 10:11, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit :
Nothing is set in stone yet, but some time soon he is going to upload a whole new license text (hopefully in English), probably something custom-made.
Try to point it to the OFL and its FAQ, it has been created exactly for this purpose and is Fedora-compatible. Try to explain him that unless he is ready to pay a lot of money to lawyers drafting a licensing text that has the expected effect in all the jurisdictions his web site can reach is quite difficult.
Along with the fonts, there will probably be some sort of software, hence its mention. Apparently he is not hostile to linux distros redistributing his fonts, but he took issue when I pointed him to our licensing pages and he did call redistributors and font web sites "license pushers"
A distribution is a license pusher. However, try to assemble any non-trivial IT system and you’ll see license pushing is not a piece of cake. Distributions are doing license pushing for the masses otherwise no one but the GAFAM and IBM/HP/Oracle could afford to assemble IT systems (and those usually do not care about small markets like Greece or the fonts of George Douros).
If he wants his fonts to reach history students and researchers he will have to pass by some form of license pushing. There’s no way any form of (micro) payment can work out when any system is composed of tens of thousands of components that continuously change.
- Finally, if everything fails, is there a suitable and equivalent replacement for Symbola?
I suspect Noto will eventually cover all the codepoints but being entirely dependent on the GAFAM is a terrible idea mid term. We need people like George Douros and they need entities like us or it will eventually end up in a new lockdown era like in the bad 2000 MS-only years.
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