On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:43:10PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden Robinson: > > BR> There are lots of ways to preserve artistic integrity. It's > BR> perfectly compatible with the DFSG to, for instance, require that > BR> modified versions change the name of the relevant > BR> (font|executable|data file), to include a disclaimer in the > BR> copyright info about the software's modified status, etc. > > Would it be poor etiquette to forward a digest of this discussion to > Charles Bigelow? Not at all. I'm be more than happy to discuss this with him and see if there is a possible license that satisfies both the DFSG and Bigelow and Holmes's artistic integrity. The only part of the Lucidux font license at issue is the following: The Font Software may not be modified, altered, or added to, and in particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may not be modified nor may additional glyphs or characters be added to the Fonts, except that composite characters composed of two or more characters in the Fonts may be created using the seac (Standard Encoding Accented Character) Type 1 operator. If it were the case that the font could be modified, altered, or added to in any respect other than the above, *BUT* the font would then have to be referred to by a different name (while still maintaining the B&H copyright notice and license terms, and providing prominent notice of the font's modified status), that, for instance, would satisfy the DFSG. The Apache Software License does something similar and has been accepted satisfying the DFSG for many years. That's just one possibility. With a bit of imagination I'm sure there are many others. > It was a conscious decision that I should not join the Debian project. > There is only so much time that I can spend on Free Software, and I am > not willing to have the duties of a Debian maintainer cut on my work > upstream. I can certainly sympathize with that. Just the task of packaging XFree86 for Debian seems to expand to consume all resources I make available for it. > Thank you for your suggestion, Branden, but this is way more than what > I am willing to do in Debian. I can only hope that somebody more > involved within Debian than I am will agree with me and go through the > necessary process; failing that, I hope that somebody, perhaps even > you, will get the fonts under discussion into Non-Free. Since this mail is going to the debian-x mailing list (among other places), let me publicly ask for a volunteer. It should be a pretty straightforward process to package these fonts. Retrieve the following directory from an official XFree86 X402src-2.tgz file: xc/fonts/scaled/Type1 Delete the following files: Copyright c0419bt_.afm c0419bt_.pfb c0582bt_.afm c0582bt_.pfb c0583bt_.afm c0583bt_.pfb c0611bt_.afm c0611bt_.pfb c0632bt_.afm c0632bt_.pfb c0633bt_.afm c0633bt_.pfb c0648bt_.afm c0648bt_.pfb c0649bt_.afm c0649bt_.pfb cursor.pfa That should leave you with: COPYRIGHT.BH COPYRIGHT.IBM Imakefile UTBI____.afm UTBI____.pfa UTB_____.afm UTB_____.pfa UTI_____.afm UTI_____.pfa UTRG____.afm UTRG____.pfa cour.afm cour.pfa courb.afm courb.pfa courbi.afm courbi.pfa couri.afm couri.pfa lcdxmo.afm lcdxmo.pfa lcdxmr.afm lcdxmr.pfa lcdxro.afm lcdxro.pfa lcdxrr.afm lcdxrr.pfa lcdxso.afm lcdxso.pfa lcdxsr.afm lcdxsr.pfa fonts.scale Edit fonts.scale and the Imakefile to remove all references to the c0* and cursor fonts. That should be just about it. Please be sure to follow the Debian X font policy when creating the package. I suggest "xfonts-scalable-nonfree" for the package name. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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