Noto unified font

Luke Dashjr luke at dashjr.org
Sun Oct 9 01:17:57 CDT 2016


On Sunday, October 09, 2016 4:37:24 AM Philippe Verdy wrote:
> The licence itself says it respects the 4 FSF freedoms. It also explicitly
> allows reselling (rule DFSG #1):
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL

No, it doesn't. That link is just a commentary, and of no relevance to non-
SIL-owned fonts.

The actual license itself begins with the problematic restriction:

    1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
    in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

> It is not directly compatible with the GPL in a composite product, but with
> LGPL there's no problem,

LGPL doesn't work that way. It allows other software to use it without being 
compatible, but any component or dependency of the LGPL'd software must meet 
the same requirements as the GPL.

> Really you are challenging the licence for unfair reasons

What unfair reasons are those? My *only* concern is that it is not free.
I don't even care to sell the fonts myself, but simply do not use non-free 
software on principle.

Luke


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