Fwd: Mukti fontset license
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From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu(a)gnu.org.in>
To: "b ghose" <b.ghose(a)gnu.org>
Cc: "Michal Nowak" <mnowak(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:48:40 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome /
Stockholm / Vienna
Subject: Re: Mukti fontset license
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)gnu.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michal Nowak
<mnowak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> ping?
>
> On 10:11 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Fedora Linux distribution considered packaging Your Mukti fontset,
>> but we found out that the license is GPLv2+, which we consider as
>> excellent for software but not for fonts.
>>
>> The problem we see is that when you embed the font inside PDF file
>> then the whole document has to be licensed as a GPLv2+ too. This is
>> thought to be controversial.
>>
>> Do you think it can be possible to change the license to e.g. 'GPLv2+
>> + Font Exception'? The Exception would be this one:
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
>>
>> Which just says that just embedding the font does not mean that you
>> have to license your file (e.g. book) as GPLv2+ too.
>>
>> Let me know whay you think.
>>
>> Looking forward to your reply.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michal
Sayamindu, can you kindly contact the author of Mukti and coordinate this?
I have tried to do this earlier - did not get any response from him.
Will try again.
-sdg-
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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Michal Nowak
BaseOS QE (Apps/Toolchain sub-group) Engineer