On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:01:48PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "NG" == Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > NG> Most of these fonts look like they are licensed appropriately, the > NG> only problem is the Ubuntu fonts, which have been noted to have a > NG> non-free license[3] (unless someone can get Canonical to fix it). > > I had a look at the license at https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/font-licence > and didn't see anything that strikes me as particularly non-free. > > The license has a forced renaming requirement for "Modified Versions > which are Substantially Changed", but that kind of thing hasn't rendered > something non-free in the past. The only thing which I've not seen > before is a forced renaming requirement which specifies the name to be > used: > > 3. Modified Versions which are not Substantially Changed must be renamed > to both > 1. retain the name of the Original Version and > 2. add additional naming elements to distinguish the Modified Version > from the Original Version. The name of such Modified Versions must be > the name of the Original Version, with "derivative X" where X > represents the name of the new work, appended to that name. > > So maybe that's an issue. The font doesn't appear in our list of > licenses (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Font_Licenses) > so I guess it wouldn't hurt to ping the legal list, which I'll do now. The previous attempt is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961642 -- Tomasz Torcz ,,(...) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.'' xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx -- Mitchell Blank on LKML _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
