contributing new font package for xorg
Edward G.J. Lee
edt1023 at ms17.hinet.net
Fri Aug 12 04:08:42 PDT 2005
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005, Ely Levy wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Edward G.J. Lee wrote:
> > Sure, you need the permission.:)
> >
> > I mean the license of the embedded font cannot change the
> > document's license. There are two subject matter of court
> > action.
> >
> Well it seems not all lawyers/ people agree with you about that,
> It never got to court though so you might decide if you want to take the
> risk and lets say release your new ebook PDF with GPL fonts and find out
> later in court if it doesn't mean everyone can freely distrbute your
> book:)
That's true. But all license has its risk too.:)
And that's why we need legal theory. So I don't think the copyright
holder of [GPLed]font has right to affect the document license
that hold by another people.
Unfortunately, my many documents were under the GFDL and used GPLed
fonts. :)
Edward
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