Possible problem with licensing of liberation-fonts

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 17:40:32 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:48 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't find any discussion of this in the archives, so apologies if
> this has come up before, but there seems to be a bit of a problem
> regarding the GPL+restrictions nature of the liberation fonts we have
> packaged for Fedora. See the Debian discussion here:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg36584.html
> 
> These arguments would seem to apply equally well to
> inclusion/exclusion of liberation fonts in Fedora as well. Thoughts?

The FSF says the license is Free but GPL-Incompatible, so its fine for
Fedora. Added it to the Fonts table.

~spot




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