[Openfontlibrary] red hat liberation fonts

[Dave Crossland]

On 11/05/07, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>     ns> Not quite sure how to interpret precisely the second exception...
>     ns> IMHO this could use a README and a FAQ.
>
> I agree.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis may help.

>     dc> I'd say that the OFL was more restrictive than the GPL.
>     ns>In what way?
> no point in trying to argue which is "more" restrictive.

My point was that suggesting the OFL is less restrictive than the GPL
isn't cricket.

> Anyway, the decision for this group has already been made.

Sure!

>     ns> than ideal because the exception *can* be dropped in
>     later modifications.
>
> That's a feature, not a bug.  It is easily imaginable that a font
> designer might want his work to be only be used in free documents.  We (GNU)
> get queries along these lines for software (I mean, non-font software :)
> quite frequently.

I note that droppable exceptions was also the way that GPLv3 draft 2
was set up, but they have since been dropped as too complicated to
deal with in practice.

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Regards,
Dave