----- Start Opprinnelig Melding ----- Sendt: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:25:20 +0900 Fra: Paul Wise > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 18:10 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > Sendt: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:25 +0900 > > Fra: Paul Wise > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > > Just an idea I got after reading about Ecofont on GuardrianUnlimited > > > > earlier today. As a nice little publicity nicety, Debian could be the > > > > first distribution to ship with this new environmental friendly and > > > > printing cost reducing font. > > > > > > > Learn more about the Ecofont at http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html > > > > > > > > The font is licensed under GPL. > > > > > > I heard (in Freenode ##fonts) it was derived from DejaVu, which would > > > make this an illegal relicensing. I also heard that it is GPL + > > > restrictions, which would make it non-distributable even if the > > > relicensing was legit. > > > > The license document says "The Ecofont is distributed under GPL and based > > upon Bitstream Vera." It should be fine. > > Where is this license document? > > Anyway, the problem is the Bitstream Vera license being > GPL-incompatible. > > The FAQ also mentions it is also based on Microsoft's Verdana, so who > knows where they have taken glyphs from and how legal it is.
http://www.ecofont.eu/assets/files/Ecofont_licence.pdf -- Daniel Aleksandersen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
