On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:30 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > :Perhaps this is in the purview of the docs project, maybe not :) > > I was just packaging some fonts [1,2] where the licensing of upstream > was uncertain. In one instance, something licensed upstream as OFL was > actually a derived work from a GPL+Exception font. The author of the > OFL font had permission from the original author to do this, however, > didn't make that clear due to limitations of the distribution website > (http://openfontlibrary.org) > > In the other case (same upstream author), there were images from a > museum that he made into a font. It again was unclear whether or not > he had gotten permission to do this (he had). > > He viewed my request for clarification, in both instances, as me (and > Fedora) essentially accusing him of being a scumbag thief, which was > quite obviously not the intent - rather the intent was to clear up the > legal status of the fonts to evaluate their suitability for inclusion > in Fedora, a great thing. To add to the misunderstanding, the author > in question is a non-native English speaker. > > So the question is whether we can come up with something of a template > for these sorts of things, which can't easily be misconstrued - even > by a non-native speaker, that Fedora as a whole could use to avoid > further misunderstandings of this type? Unfortunately, I don't have > the text of what I sent, since the upstream contact is through a > webform and they reply to the e-mail generated from it. > > -Jon > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445261 > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455153 Jon, I posted a draft at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/DraftUpstreamRequestEmail It would be nice if some non-English speakers on this list would look at it. Then post to the list here to tell me if any of the text rubs you the wrong way! :-) -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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