[Fedora-legal-list] GPL with font exception

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 18:28 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How should we treat GPLv2 + with font embedding exception?
> Can it be denoted just "GPLv2"?
> 
> I am asking in the context of wqy-bitmap-fonts.
> Currently the package carries GPL v2 COPYING and
> the font source files state:
> 
> COMMENT     	Copyright: (C)2004-2007, The WenQuanYi Project
> COMMENT     		   Board of Trustees and Qianqian Fang
> COMMENT     	License  : GPL v2.0 (with font embedding exception)
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
> 
> I guess it would be good to include the exception text in the tarball 
> too.  The author has communicated that he prefers to keep it at GPL v2.0 
> for now.

I've added this case (and all possible GPL + font exception cases) to
the table, please use "GPLv2 with exceptions" in the License field.

Thanks,

~spot