Fwd: Re: License questions about HVD Comic Serif Pro Font

[Tom Callaway]

Looks like the licensing confusion was an accidental oversight.

~tom

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: License questions about HVD Comic Serif Pro Font
Date: 	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:01:30 +0100
From: 	Hannes von Döhren <hannes(a)hvdfonts.de&gt;
To: 	Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt;



Hi Tom,

I am sorry for the confusion.
I changend the License from to textfile to the CCA 3.0
but it seems i forgot to delete the conflicting parts.

Thank you for your email. I will lchange this.

And: You can use the HVD Comic Serif and include it in Fedora, if you want.

Best regards,
Hannes

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Am 20.12.2010 um 19:29 schrieb Tom Callaway:

>  Hannes von Döhren (who whomever at HVD Fonts receives this email),
>
>  Recently, there has been interest in including the HVD Comic Serif Pro
>  Font Family in Fedora (a popular distribution of Linux). One of the
>  requirement for a Font to be included in Fedora is that it must be
>  available under a Free License (a license that permits unrestricted use,
>  modification, and distribution).
>
>  Initially, it appeared that HVD Comic Serif Pro was under a Free
>  License, specifically, the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
>  License.
>
>  However, in the Readme.txt file included in the .zip file, the following
>  terms are also listed:
>
> > This typeface may not be modified in any way unless it contains an
> > unmodified copy of this text file and attributes Hannes von Döhren in
> > the font metadata.
>
>  and
>
> > Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
> > in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Original or
> > Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed
> > and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the
> > above copyright notice and this license
>
>  Both of these restrictions conflict with the CC-Attribution license, and
>  make the overall licensing terms Non-Free.
>
>  Specifically, it is noteworthy that the CC-Attribution license requires
>  attribution, so these additional terms are somewhat redundant.
>
>  I would like to know if it would be possible for these additional terms
>  found in Readme.txt can be waived or removed, so that we can include
>  this font in Fedora.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Tom Callaway
>
>  ==
>  Fedora Project, Legal