I copied the wrong bug in the CC. Here's my mail to the font author: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM Subject: Regarding your fonts' Licenses To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! First of all, thanks for making all those free fonts. I'm contacting you because one of your fonts (Stan's hand) got included in a free game (Help Hannah's Horse [0]) which then got included in Debian GNU/Linux distribution [1], for which I work (voluntarily, no money involved). Your fonts are free of charge, but unfortunately are not free in the Debian sense of freedom [2]. For them to be "Debian" free, people that have access to them need to be able to do whatever they want with them (this includes selling or modifying them), as long as your copyright notice is retained. You can still ask people to pay you and tell you of their use of the font, so long as it's not a compulsory obligation. A few changes to the way your license is worded would allow for the font to be considered free: Instead of "Link to my site and send me an email if you use it," it would be better if it said "If possible, I'd like for you to link to my site and send me an email if you use it,". Instead of "If you use it to make some money, you should definitely send me some," you could say "If you use it to make some money, it would be nice if you sent me some,". The "Do not include in CD-ROM's or other media for sale without my permission. Not nice & Very Bad Karma! Do not re-mix or otherwise bastardize my babies either!" is the most conflictive... For the font to be free in the Debian sense, the whole paragraph would need to be erased or completely changed :-\. In case you are interested, there's a free font license that you could use for your fonts called OFL [3] [4]. [0]: http://www.retrojunkies.co.uk/index.php?page=game [1]: http://www.debian.org [2]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [3]: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_web [4]: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web -- Love, Marga -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
