missing LICENSES and COPYING files

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Oct 17 14:15:52 PDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:24:18AM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> You (reed at reedmedia.net) wrote:
>  JCR> Also font/screen-cyrillic has no details -- where did this come from? Why 
>  JCR> is it in the source tree? (I found in XFree86 logs about "643. Update 
>  JCR> kio8-r encoded Cyrillic BDF fonts (#A.1267, Andrey A. Chernov)." but don't 
>  JCR> know where it was derived from or the copyright on it.
> 
> Andrey says those files are under the following license:
> 
> This package contains the set of Russian fonts for X11 Release 6.
> Copyright (C) 1994-1995 Cronyx Ltd.
> Changes Copyright (C) 1996 by Sergey Vovk
> Changes Copyright (C) 1999-2000 by Serge Winitzki
> Changes Copyright (C) 1996-2000 by Andrey A. Chernov, Moscow, Russia.
> 
> Version: 2.3.1
> 
> This software may be used, modified, copied, distributed and sold,
> in both source and binary form provided that the above copyright
> and these terms are retained. Under no circumstances is the author
> responsible for the proper functioning of this software, nor does
> the author assume any responsibility for damages incurred with its use.
> 
> You may contact him directly using <ache at nagual.pp.ru> e-mail if
> further information is needed.

Damnit, doesn't allow modification.

Andrey, is there any chance this could be licensed under an MIT-style
licence?

Cheers,
Daniel
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