[OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: PT Sans licensing query

[Dave Crossland]

Hi,

Thoughts?

I think this is okay and worth encouraging; does anyone have any other
suggestions for me to pass on to Emil? :-)

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From: Yakupov, Emil Date: 2010/1/7
Subject: RE: PT Sans licensing query
To: Dave Crossland

Hi Dave,
Hope you enjoy you tour in New Zealand. I also just come back from
skiing in Bulgaria.

Returning to our licensing question. When I told about my concern I
meant not only possible future changes on OFL, but mostly possible
changes in our minds. First of all -- we are going to distribute the
fonts via Microsoft. I'm asking MS to consider possibility to include
the fonts into one of the next recommended updates and I'm not sure
that they will agree to bundle the font with OFL which is not
modifiable. We also think about other similar channels and while some
of them like to have exactly OFL, I can imagine that some of them who
offer commercial software will not.
And also you are right Russian-English aspect is the main and the most
critical. In any case we need to present the License that fully
corresponds in terms and statements to Russian federal low in the area
of protection of intellectual property -- Chapter 4 of the The Civil
Code.

I think that the best and most flexible way will be the following.
We place on our site, on the site of Federal Agency and on the sites
of local governments of Russian Federation the distributive set that
is bundled with Russian license that will play the role of main EULA
together with supplementary English version which will serve
information purposes.
I place the draft English version below for you information.

At the same time, if you agree, we will write on our site that the
fonts are also available under SIL OFL and those who would like to
bundle the fonts with for example Linux systems may get the OFL
version of the font by a special request. OFL version will have the
link to http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_web.

Best Regards
Emil


FYI
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FREE FONT LICENSING AGREEMENT
for the fonts with Original Name: PT Sans

GRANT OF LICENSE
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modified and unmodified copies of the fonts by any means, including placing
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- You may bundle the font with commercial software, but you may not sell the
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- You may not distribute modified version of the font under the Original name
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