[Pkg-fonts-devel] Comments regarding fonts-amiga_1.02-1_amd64.changes

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Gürkan,

On Fri 03 Apr 2020 at 01:21PM +02, Gürkan Myczko wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
>> I notice that upstream has relicensed from CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 to GPL with
>> the fonts exception, after a previous REJECT from NEW.
>
> Yes that is true.
>
>> The upstream maintainer does not, however, hold copyright on all of
>> the fonts -- they are from a number of different authors.  So I am not
>> sure he has the right to relicense the whole package.
>
> They do as described in debian/copyrights, and they hang out in #ascii
> on irc,
> their answer a week ago only to irc was (unfortunately there was no
> reply to the github issue):
>
> <tarzeau> can i get an answer to
> https://github.com/rewtnull/amigafonts/issues/5 please?
> <@truck> "These fonts are replications, not conversions, of the original
> fonts.  As such, they are derivative works. I can relicense them, as
> they are mine. There is no upstream."
> <@dMG> thank you truck for clearing it up, that is basically in line
> with what i was thinking to answer too :)

You don't get a relicense something unilaterally just because it is a
derivative work!  Also, "they are derivative works" and "there is no
upstream" would seem to be in tension with each other.

I think we need more detail on what is meant by "replications".

-- 
Sean Whitton
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