[Fedora-legal-list] LGPLv2 and v2.1 for fonts?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Jul 15 13:59:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 22:27 -0500, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454128
> requests review of a set of 4 fonts.  3 are licensed LGPLv2, one
> LGPLv2.1.  These are not listed at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts
> therefore I request clarification.

The LGPL (like the GPL) is an odd license for fonts, but it does give
permission to use/modify/redistribute. You should ask the Font SIG, but
I've got no problem there.

~spot




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