Fwd: Mukti fontset license

[Michal Nowak]

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu at gnu.org.in>
To: "b ghose" <b.ghose at gnu.org>
Cc: "Michal Nowak" <mnowak at 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 at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michal Nowak <mnowak at 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