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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Oxygen font licensing
From:       Dave Crossland <dave () lab6 ! com>
Date:       2012-01-25 16:47:08
Message-ID: CAEozd0w=5n8MmWcur=1bOa2S0Hf=0WEH7F7gwW=gCiEFcwypTA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi all!

Sorry about this, Vern sent me the thread and I see I misunderstood.

On 25 January 2012 08:16, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com> wrote:
> Richard is suggesting that when a font is partially copied into a PDF
> document, it can reasonably be considered separate to the combined
> work of the document.

Richard, I see you were not suggesting that :-)

> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

If true, it would also be true of images/graphics that are also
embedded in PDFs with GPL texts. How are non-free images used with GPL
texts handled?

I suggest that the simplest solution would be to make the Oxygen font
available under GPLv2, GPLv3 and OFL.

-- 
Cheers
Dave
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