Unifont - Support: sr #110486, Invalid license
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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: |
Paul Hardy <unifoundry> |
Thu 06 May 2021 10:23:06 PM UTC, original submission:
Hi,
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Hacker <hacker> |
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2021-05-08 | unifoundry | Status | None | Invalid | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
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2021-05-06 | hacker | Carbon-Copy | - | Added -email is unavailable- | |
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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