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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Oxygen font licensing
From:       Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab () web ! de>
Date:       2012-01-17 12:09:32
Message-ID: 87pqeijzsz.wl%arne_bab () web ! de
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Hi Jonathan,

The problem is that the OFL might not extend to the GPL text, but the GPL text could \
well extend to the font. Which in my opinion also is how it should be: If there were \
an unfree font in a PDF, I might not be able to distribute changed versions of the \
text in the same format, because I would not be allowed to redistribute the font.

That means, however, that any font license has to be GPL compatible - at least to my \
limited understanding of the legal situation.

Best wishes,
Arne

At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:30:58 +0000,
Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 
> > > Currently you are using the open font license from SIL for the Oxygen  Font.
> > > Sadly from what I understand, that is not GPL compatible, which could  get
> > > us into problems with GPL licensed text (I actually have that problem in  a
> > > free pen-and-paper roleplaying system: the OFL fonts are not available
> > > for
> 
> Can you say more about this example use?  
> 
> SIl OFL has
> 
> "The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any
> document created using the Font Software."
> 
> so it should not be a problem.
> 
> Jonthan
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