[Fedora-legal-list] MgOpen font license

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Fri Dec 19 21:10:30 UTC 2008


The license for the MgOpen fonts seems almost identical to the
Bistream Vera font license:
  http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html#license
  http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts
Currently our mgopen-fonts pacakge uses "Bitstream Vera" for its
license tag, but a query came up in IRC as to whether they really are
the same license.  The Vera license included a note at the end, after
the ALL CAPS section, about the use of certain names in advertising
which the MgOpen license does not have, and the MgOpen license
included one additional phrase in the third paragraph:
  "or if the modifications are accepted for inclusion in the Font
  Software itself by the each appointed Administrator."

Are these licenses sufficiently identical to have the same License:
tag in Fedora?

 - J<




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