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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    RE: Tahoma Font License
From:       Mark Page <rombust () hotmail ! co ! uk>
Date:       2011-05-30 15:47:45
Message-ID: SNT133-w12C48AE7A178FA9F306453F27B0 () phx ! gbl
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> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:39:04 -0700
> From: scott@open-vote.org
> To: wine-devel@winehq.org
> Subject: Re: Tahoma Font License
> 
> On 05/25/2011 09:27 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Hi mark,
> > 
> > 2011/5/25 Mark Page :
> > > 
> > > I am a bit confused by the Wine "tahoma" license: "Wine Tahoma Regular" ... GNU \
> > > Lesser General Public License 2.1 
> > > It would be useful to add the font to the ClanLib SDK resources (ClanLib has a \
> > > zlib style license) 
> > > It is not clear how a font can be licensed using LGPL, since LGPL is based \
> > > around software libraries. 
> > > Ideally I feel it should have a creative commons license
> > > 
> > > I believe Creative commons did not exist when that font was created
> > tahoma.sfd: Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004 Larry Snyder, Based on
> > Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. Font renamed
> > in accordance with former's license. Please do not contact Bitstream
> > Inc. for any reason regarding this font.
> > 
> > So just look up the original without contacting bitstream inc. ?
> > 
> 
> The topic of relicensing wine fonts has come up before. Usually the
> discussion ends with "our fonts aren't as good as you think, and you
> probably don't want them so don't worry about licensing."
> 
> I'm not so sure it's true anymore. Symbol replacement, for instance,
> can actually be useful to show special characters on web pages that
> would otherwise come up as question marks.
> 
> -Scott Ritchie
> 
> 

For reference, I have emailed Larry, via an email address I found searching archive \
wine developer lists ( wierd_w at y***o.com )  
I sent the email last week. Hopefully, he still is using that address.
 
I will post a message if he does allow a change of license.
 
Mark.
  		 	   		  


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