Re: Oxygen font licensing

A Sábado, 28 de Janeiro de 2012 12:07:41 vernon adams você escreveu:
> As the designer of the fonts, and after much thought, my preference is
> that the fonts should be dual licensed, both under GPL and the
> OFL(OpenFontLicense). This will allow the fonts to be easilly bundled
> with GPL licensed desktops, but also under the OFL any webfont versions
> of the fonts will be free to be used across the web. This seems to me to
> be a good solution for keeping the fonts as free as possible

IN that case might I just ask one thing, that you use LGPL instead of GPL? 
just to be consystent with all other licecing in oxygen...(its all LGPL v2 I 
think)

> 
> If anyone sees a hitch in this, please let me know! :)
> 
> Thanks for input/advice so far, very much appreciated.
> 
> -vernon
> 
> >  > >> 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.
> >  > 
> >  > I suggest that the simplest solution would be to make the Oxygen font
> >  > 
> >  > available under GPLv2, GPLv3 and OFL.
> > 
> > Is it comply wrong if we licence it like everything else on oxygen as
> > LGPL??? onestly i dont care one bit about this issues as long as its
> > free and open im OK.

-- 
oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures"

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