Great news from Ray Dittmeier (acefonts) too! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ray Dittmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:47 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Regarding your fonts' Licenses To: Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marga, Thanks for writing, and yes, I'm the Ray Dittmeier of the long-lost acefonts.com domain. Without going into a story that would be longer than it is interesting, I'll just say that at this stage of the game, I don't have any objection whatsoever to using the OFL license. If a statement via email is good enough, then you may consider any font I've created to be covered by the Open Font License as it's currently stated on the OFL web page you linked to, superseding the original license found in the text file that was bundled with the font. But if you don't mind, I would like to ask a quick question. Checking out the "Help Hannah's Horse" web page you linked to, I don't see Fat Free Solid used in the screen shot. Are you sure it's included in the game? Or maybe it's in some other part of the game? Ray Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > Are you Ray Dittmeier, author of many free fonts that were published > around 2000 at the "acefonts" domain? > > If so, this mail is for you. If not, please ignore it. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:52 PM > Subject: Fwd: 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 (Fat Free Solid) 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, without an obligation of contacting you. > > 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. > > Please, consider changing the way your license is worded, so that > this font can still be shipped in Debian. > > 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]
