Re: using the feta font in a GPL2 application

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Florian Jung <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> As far as permission to use it the current font under GPL2, I think
>>>>> Han-Wen
>>>>> and Jan need to give that permission.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i assume Han-Wen and Jan also read that mailing list, so i'm asking for
>>>> permission to use the current font :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe that *everybody* who has worked on the feta fonts would need
>>> to give that permission.  You can find this list by looking at the git
>>> changelog messages for those files, but I do not recommend going
>>> further with this.  I really recommend that you either use the old
>>> GPLv2 feta fonts, or use GPLv3 (possibly 3+) for your application.
>>>
>>> It's unfortunate that copyright law gets in the way like this, but it
>>> does.
>>>
>>
>> Well, only if anyone decides to make an issue of this, and it's not
>> like we claim any sort of rights over images of the font when we put
>> them on paper or screen. I think you can just go ahead with muse2.
>>
>> I'd recommend using freetype for the rendering instead btw, as you'll
>> be more flexible wrt symbol sizes on screens of different device
>> resolutions.
>>
>
> may i read that as a "feel free to use the font, if someone decides that he
> doesn't like that, he will kindly ask you to use another font instead of
> killing you immediately" :)?

This reads as: "please stop fussing over tiny differences in GPL
versions; if you have a good idea, just do it."

I don't think we can claim GPL rights over bitmaps of the font anyway.
 Then again IANAL, and neither is anyone else on the list.  I did
however, write the biggest portion of the feta code over which we are
agonizing.


> thanks for your answer :)
> flo
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