[Lohit-devel-list] Planning to drop Reserved Font Name (RFN) from OFL.txt

[Dave Crossland]

On 27 December 2012 15:23, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:04:12AM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> On 27 December 2012 08:57, Pravin Satpute <psatpute at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > 2. Added Trademark line in COPYRIGHT file
>>
>> I am very confused - this contradicts the idea of dropping of the RFN.
>
> That statement itself seems to contradict something you said on this
> list on 6 December 2012 regarding Overpass:
>
>   If 'Overpass' is considered a valuable Red Hat trademark, I'd
>   personally suggest declaring trademark notices alongside copyright
>   notices for both licenses.
>
> (unless I misunderstood it).
>
> In any case, I don't see a contradiction. The RFN is used to add a
> trademark-like copyright condition to the OFL. The trademark notice is
> just a trademark notice.

Right - but Pravin said,

>> > we have decided to drop RFN from Lohit fonts.

which suggest removing trademark notices also.

Cheers
Dave