[Pkg-fonts-devel] Re: [Openfontlibrary] Re: [DejaVu-fonts] forming new maintenance team for MPH 2B Damase?

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Paul,

Wouldn't it be better if you as the original author claimed the
copyright on it, and
put the kind of license on it that you would prefer (BSD or whatever)?
 Then a group
could form a project around your font just the same, but now would be
able to respect your wishes as regards licensing with no ambiguities
or future contentions?

- Ed Trager


On 2/10/07, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:28 +0800, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> > MPH 2B Damase does not have a free and open-source license. I was
> > wondering if the author would be flexible to relicense using a license
> > such as OFL.
>
> There is no copyright, no licence, it is public domain.
>
> Therefore you can do anything you could with any free and open-source
> licence, and more, including claim copyright over it and re-licence it
> to the OFL if you so choose.
>
> I'd really suggest that a much more permissive licence (BSD/MIT/Expat)
> is used if someone decides to claim copyright over it and or any changes
> made and choose a licence. I think public domain is just as good a
> "licence" as any free font licence.
>
> It was pointed out that one option would be to simply import the
> glyphs/etc into another font (such as DejaVu) instead of keeping MPH 2B
> Damase as a separate project/font. Obviously in such a situation the
> glyphs/etc would be re-licenced to the same licence as the font they
> were imported into.
>
> If you wish to verify that the font really is in the public domain and
> that the author did not take the glyphs from some other source, please
> read the debian Intent To Package bug[1] or contact the author (Mark).
>
>      1. http://bugs.debian.org/306290
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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