[OpenFontLibrary] PT Sans

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Dec 29 16:18:19 PST 2009


weird, did anyone email them to try and get them to use OFL? last
thing we need is more fragmentation.

Jon

2009/12/29 Andrey V. Panov <panov at canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>:
> On 28 декабря 2009, Andrey V. Panov wrote:
>> ParaType type foundry has released PT Sans typeface http://fonts.ru/public/
>>  (the text in Russian, it leads to zip archive). Its license which could be
>>  found in "TTF names" is mostly identical to OFL 1.0. The fonts contain
>>  Latin and Cyrillic including extended.
>>
>
> In fact their license is based on OFL 1.1. They removed PREAMBLE and DEFINITIONS
> sections, added "has no limits on time and territory, but it" to TERMINATION
> section ("TERMINATION & TERRITORY" in their version) and replaced "Copyright
> Holder(s)" with "ParaType" through the text.
>
> Here is ParaType's license:
>
> ---------------------
> Copyright © 2009 ParaType Ltd.
> with Reserved Names "PT Sans" and "ParaType".
>
> FONT LICENSE
>
> PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
> of the font software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute,
> and sell modified and unmodified copies of the font software, subject to the
> following conditions:
>
> 1) Neither the font software nor any of its individual components, in original
> or modified versions, may be sold by itself.
>
> 2) Original or modified versions of the font software may be bundled,
> redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains
> the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as
> stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate
> machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those
> fields can be easily viewed by the user.
>
> 3) No modified version of the font software may use the Reserved Name(s) or
> combinations of Reserved Names with other words unless explicit written
> permission is granted by the ParaType. This restriction only applies to the
> primary font name as presented to the users.
>
> 4) The name of ParaType or the author(s) of the font software shall not be
> used to promote, endorse or advertise any modified version, except to
> acknowledge the contribution(s) of ParaType and the author(s) or with explicit
> written permission of ParaType.
>
> 5) The font software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be
> distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any
> other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not
> apply to any document created using the Font Software.
>
> TERMINATION & TERRITORY
> This license has no limits on time and territory, but it becomes null and void
> if any of the above conditions are not met.
>
> DISCLAIMER
> THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT,
> TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL PARATYPE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
> DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
> INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT
> OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT
> SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
>
>
> --
> Andrey V. Panov
> http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/
>



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