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sr #110486: Invalid license

Submitter:  Hacker <hacker>
Submitted:  Thu 06 May 2021 10:23:06 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  5 - Blocker Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Operating System:  None

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Sat 08 May 2021 01:12:12 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hacker,

RMS has known about this.

The change was made following the FSF's removal of the GNU Font Embedding Exception from its license pages, and not reinstating that text after the removal was questioned.

Dual-licensing under the SIL OFL 1.1 was endorsed by all of Unifont's contributors, including by Unifont's creator (Roman Czyborra) as a guarantee that in the future Unifont could not be controlled by a more restrictive license.  The FSF has even listed the SIL OFL 1.1 as the only license it considers a free font license.

As for section 5 of the SIL OFL, that prevents someone from copying Unifont (modified or unmodified) and claiming that the copy is covered by a different license (for example, a Creative Commons license).  There is nothing preventing the original creator from dual-licensing the font.


Paul Hardy

Paul Hardy <unifoundry>
Group administrator
Thu 06 May 2021 10:23:06 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

The license on GNU Unifont isn't valid as you announced on http://unifoundry.com/

Paragraph 5 of the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE specifically forbids GNU Unifont from using any other license on the Font, in fact it is immoral to restrict GNU Unifont which is an official GNU software:

> 5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license.


This also seems to be a violation of the GNU's hosting requirements.

GNU Unifont must remain under the GNU GPL license without using any other.

I raise this issue with the License to Severity 5 - Blocker

Hacker <hacker>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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