Re: New license of BaKoMa TeX fonts
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
Is this free software license? Wording seems a little bit confusing,
when it comes to selling those fonts.
CTAN: fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/LICENSE
...
Permission to copy and distribute these fonts for any purpose is
hereby granted without fee,
...
Permission to modify and distribute modified fonts for any purpose is
hereby granted without fee
...
Permission to use these fonts (embedding into PostScript, PDF, SVG
and printing by using any software) is hereby granted without fee.
...
I read "Permission ... granted without fee" as indicating that no
fee is required for the permission, not that the permission applies
only if no fee is involved.
Unless you have some reason to believe otherwise (in which case
clarification from upstream should be sought), I'd call this free.
IANADD, take with requisite grains of salt.
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Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/>
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