Ejectmail, thank you for looking into it. Remember that the interim UFL
has drawn up as a first take, with the hope to refine it, so input is
appreciated, because out of it we can get a better libre font licence
than the choices that were available at the time.
Obviously one must start somewhere. Ine must ensure that one always has
the source code, the freedom to modify it, the freedom to give it to
other people, and the freedom to sell it. The interim UFL has, as a
minimum, all of these. I'm sure wording could be improved but it has a
good foundation (note: the "propagation" wording is straight out of the
GPLv3, various other sections come from SIL's OFL).
Onto trademarks, Trademarks, are about the point of use; and whether a
consumer would be confused. It *is* possible to say (quite factually)
"Iceweasel is based on Firefox", or "Iceweasel is Firefox with branding
removed". What one cannot do is to say "Iceweasel is {insert huge big
Firefox logo}". Indeed, free-software licences demand that attribution
is made available and that the authorship is not misrepresented.
In the interim UFL text, one could potentially remove the (explicit)
trademark sentence, and leave it simply (implicit). The net-effect
would be the same (that you can't misrepresent to consumers that you are
somebody, or something else).
The intention was to get existing type foundries working with a libre
licence. I think the intention was to make it abundantly that people
wouldn't be able to pick up MonoType FooBar Bold and sell it as genuine
MonoType(tm) when they didn't have a trademark agreement to do so.
The bigger picture is what is important here. Making a libre font
licence that *real type design companies* might actually be comfortable
with using on a large-scale, and which caters to their concerns in terms
of metrics-stability and not having a product passed off. For code, the
industry with the GPLv2 and GPLv3. For fonts, it's not yet clear, and
the hope was to try and solve that.
(nb. I know that the word "Ubuntu" here can be emotive, you're welcome
to replace it with another word if it makes the discussion easier.
Having "Ubuntu" there in the interim licence ensures that it won't be
used elsewhere until it has been debugged. And that's where I would
appreciate your assistance).
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