[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1401] Please add KOI8-R fonts to X.org tree

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------- Additional Comments From mharris at www.linux.org.uk  2004-09-22 18:47 -------
Lack of explicit approval/license does not give an implied approval/license
to make changes.  While I absolutely agree that this stuff is old enough that
most of these companies probably do not care, it is a legal landmind to
/assume/ that that will be the case.  Not only X.Org/XFree86.org take the
risks, but all vendors shipping the codebases from either project.  Please
get the appropriate legally binding approval from Adobe, B&H, or whoever
before committing any changes to the fonts, in order to ensure that we do not
have fonts in the source tree which have legal ambiguity.

This may be considered by some people to be annoying red tape to have to
jump through, but in today's legal atmosphere, I consider it to be a very
important legal requirement.

Note:  I am not speaking authoritatively for X.Org, just offering a personal
opinion as a community member who is strongly concerned about open source
intellectual property issues in general.

Hopefully someone at X.Org can offer an authoritative response though.

Thanks for investigating these issues!        
   
   
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