[Openfontlibrary] License clarification - Icelandic and Asana-Math

[Jon Stanley]

At the request of upstream, I'm sending this message clarifying the
licensing situation for Icelandic and Asana-Math, two fonts on OFLB in
order to avoid any future confusion cross-distribution:

Icelandic was created with the advice and permission of the museum involved:
http://www.galdrasyning.is/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=418&Itemid=46&lang=en

Asana-Math is a derivative work of pxfonts, which is licensed
GPL+Exception, however, Asana-Math is licensed OFL. Permission of
upstream pxfonts for this relicensing can be found at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455153

and is fully reproduced below:

----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Young Ryu <ryoung at utdallas.edu>
> To: Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:13:23 AM
> Subject: Re: pxfonts and Asana Math
>
>
> I want pxfonts/txfonts to be available in public
> for not only document preparation/printing/publication
> but also for further modification/revision/improvement.
> You can change/copy/re-distribute them. I do not intend
> to put any restriction. Your revision and distribution of
> the fonts will be absolutely OK. There should be no
> legal problem. If GPL causes any problem, I will
> drop it and make it completely free for any purpose.
>
> Young Ryu
>
> Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> >    Dear Sir,
> >
> >    My name is Apostolos Syropoulos and recently I released my Asana Math Open
> Type
> > font, which is partially a derived work of your pxfonts. I have released the
> font
> > under the Open Font License
> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL_web),
> > but someone told me that there is some legal problem because you had released
> your
> > pxfonts with the GPL (the OFL was written a few months ago!). Could you please
> let me know if
> > there is any problem at all? And if there is how can be fixed? The font is
> absolutely free and I
> > am making no money from it.
> >
> >   Sincerely yours,
> >
> >    A.S.