Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:38:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: will@physics.purdue.edu Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev), ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG (Ying-Chieh Liao), ports@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Ports), jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan Hubbard) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/webfonts Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <200105181938.f4IJcdL00438@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20010518143055.Z26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> from "Will Andrews" at May 18, 2001 02:30:55 PM
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^^^^^ - WTF it is? There should be NetBSD!
;-P
> [ redirected to ports@, cc: jkh@ ]
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:44:18PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > Also removed NO_PACKAGE, it doesn't seem to be justified.
> >
> > I don't think it is right. By removing NO_PACKAGE you allow ftp
> > distribution of the resulting package. I'm really not sure that
> > the licence allows this. > Please verify and adjust if necessary.
> > We really don't want to be sued by M$.
> >
> > I'm not a lawyer, but the following clause from the licence rings
> > a bell to me:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm
> >
> > "Restrictions on Alteration. You may not rename, edit or create any
> > derivative > works from the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, other than subsetting
> > when embedding them in documents."
>
> I don't think that by packaging the fonts we are in any way violating
> the EULA. It is still the same as it was before; now it is merely in
> another distribution format. The clause above seems to be directed
> specifically at the fonts themselves, not the format in which they were
> originally distributed. Of course, IANAL. Perhaps Jordan should give
> his decision on the matter since the people legally responsible for
> FreeBSD.org rest within his moniker.
I'm trying to be at the safe side. After all, we gain almost
nothing by distributing those fonts as a package on our ftp
server. It is not something that requires huge computation
resources to produce.
-Maxim
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