Re: Oxygen font licensing

Hi Jonathan,

The problem is that the OFL might not extend to the GPL text, but the GPL text could well extend to the font. Which in my opinion also is how it should be: If there were an unfree font in a PDF, I might not be able to distribute changed versions of the text in the same format, because I would not be allowed to redistribute the font.

That means, however, that any font license has to be GPL compatible - at least to my limited understanding of the legal situation.

Best wishes,
Arne

At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:30:58 +0000,
Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 
> >    > Currently you are using the open font license from SIL for the Oxygen  Font.
> >    > Sadly from what I understand, that is not GPL compatible, which could  get
> >    > us into problems with GPL licensed text (I actually have that problem in  a
> >    > free pen-and-paper roleplaying system: the OFL fonts are not available
> >>    for
> 
> Can you say more about this example use?  
> 
> SIl OFL has
> 
> "The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any
> document created using the Font Software."
> 
> so it should not be a problem.
> 
> Jonthan