[Fedora-legal-list] Question -> Ubuntu Font License

[Tom Callaway]

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On 04/03/2013 03:43 PM, Ralph Bean wrote:
> A package up for review[1] contains some static resources that are 
> under the Ubuntu Font License[2].  According to a Fedora page[3],
> that license is a derivative of the Open Font License which appears
> ok on the list of acceptable Fedora licenses[4].
> 
> Is the Ubuntu Font License ok to use for Fedora packages?  If not,
> the so licensed resources can be patched out.

No. It is non-free. It says:

  To "Propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without
  permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
  infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a
  computer or modifying a private copy.

The "except" items are use and modification restrictions. Since the
license only refers to "propogate", and never grants unrestricted use
or modification permissions, the license is non-free.

Canonical could fix this license by simply dropping "except executing
it on a computer or modifying a private copy".

~tom

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