This is what Fredrik Noring at Idonex told me about the fonts. Rough translation, turbo: Now when I have you online, so to speak, can you check what the licence on 'ftp://ftp.idonex.se/roxen/nfonts*' is? Are they also GPL? There is no copyright or anything in the tarball, and it is needed some kind of licence for Debian... Rough translation, Fredrik: Yes. The answer from Idonex development chief Mattias Wingstedt are as follows: (no translation to english nessesary :) Green light in other words. So? Should I just put this mail in the copyright file, and of we go?o
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- To: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@nocrew.org>
- Subject: Re: Roxen Challenger i Debian
- From: Fredrik Noring <noring@idonex.se>
- Date: 30 Mar 1999 17:27:36 +0200
- Message-id: <uy2zp4v576f.fsf@raven.idonex.se>
- References: <uy290cf6ngi.fsf@raven.idonex.se> <ygfyakfhuq5.fsf@papadoc.solheim.net>
Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@nocrew.org> skriver: > Nu nar jag anda har dig 'pa traden' sa att saga, kan du kolla hur > licencen ar pa 'ftp://ftp.idonex.se/roxen/nfonts*' ? Ar dom oxo > GPL'ade? Finns ingen copyright eller ngt i tarballen, och det behovs > ngn form av licence for Debian... Jadå. Svaret från Idonex utvecklingschef Mattias Wingstedt är följande: The bitmapped fonts used by Roxen are not subject to copyright. We have even checked this with Adobe, from which vector fonts some of the bitmapped fonts were generated. This might seem strange, but creating a bitmapped image from the vector fonts is the normal usage of the font. If you then use the bittmapped image as a bitmapped font is your business. Grönt ljus med andra ord. -- Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just ^^^^^ / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ selective about who its friends are / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Debian Certified Linux Developer _ /// / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Turbo Fredriksson turbo@tripnet.se \\\/ \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ Gothenburg/Sweden -- [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] genetic PLO Mossad Uzi BATF Marxist nuclear radar terrorist Clinton cracking spy Peking Legion of Doom
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