[gentoo-dev] texlive cyrillic font : restrictive license

[gentoo-dev] texlive cyrillic font : restrictive license

[Alexis Ballier]

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Hi, 

while adding cyrillic packages for texlive I've come across a
restrictive license for the literat package.



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FONT PACKAGE LICENSE

Copyright (c) 1996 ParaGraph International
Copyright (c) 1996 Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

This is a free font package included into RFBR TeX distribution.
It contains four font shapes in three encodings:
- LaTeX T1 encoding
- LaTeX TS1 encoding
- ISO8859-5 encoding

In the folowing paragraphs "fonts" stands for Type 1 fonts together with
metric files and also any conversions and renderings of them.

You are allowed:
- to use fonts with any TeX distribution;
- to use fonts with any graphic editors for preparing pictures to be
  included into TeX documents;
- to use fonts with other programs (such as WWW browsers) for
  screening purpose only;
- to convert fonts into any format for above purposes;
- to include fonts into electronic documents (such as PDF) ;
- to distribute fonts together with RFBR TeX distribution.

In all cases you must make reference to this license.

Note: Use of these fonts as platform fonts in graphic environments such
as Microsoft Windows, OS/2 Presentation Manager, X Window, etc.
permitted according to above rules.

You are not allowed:
- to make any changes to font and metric files, including reencoding;
- to use fonts for hardcopy making with any programs except TeX drivers;
- to distribute this fonts as an independent package;

If you concerned in further development of this font family and if you
try to improve it by adding new or correcting existing character
glyphs, you must do all your work locally and you must send all your
changes to addresses given below. Be sure that further improvements
will be distributed under terms of this license. You may not distribute
neither fonts under development nor documents including such fonts.

CONTACTING ADDRESSES:

ParaGraph International:
  32 Krasikova street, 19th floor
  Moscow 117418 Russia
  phone: + 7 (095) 129-1500
  fax:   + 7 (095) 129-0911
  http://www.paragraph.com



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As it'll be distributed with texlive ebuilds I think it's fine, but I
find the license a bit restrictive so I've not added the package for
now.

Is that license acceptable for us ?
If yes, that'll be trivial to re-add the package.


Regards,

Alexis.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] texlive cyrillic font : restrictive license

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 12:49 Sun 14 Oct     , Alexis Ballier wrote:
> while adding cyrillic packages for texlive I've come across a
> restrictive license for the literat package.

> You are allowed:
...
> - to distribute fonts together with RFBR TeX distribution.

> You are not allowed:
...
> - to distribute this fonts as an independent package;

This is the one part that concerns me. If you aren't doing this 
literally within one of the packages, rather than as a standalone 
package of its own, don't do it.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] texlive cyrillic font : restrictive license

[Alexis Ballier]

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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:14:06 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 12:49 Sun 14 Oct     , Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > while adding cyrillic packages for texlive I've come across a
> > restrictive license for the literat package.
> 
> > You are allowed:
> ...
> > - to distribute fonts together with RFBR TeX distribution.
> 
> > You are not allowed:
> ...
> > - to distribute this fonts as an independent package;
> 
> This is the one part that concerns me. If you aren't doing this 
> literally within one of the packages, rather than as a standalone 
> package of its own, don't do it.

yeah... I'm afraid you're right; I had read it the wrong way, we're
distributing it as part of texlive installation, not RFBR afaik.
I had considered "you are allowed to use it with any tex distribution"
sufficient, but it's not.

Thanks, 

Alexis.

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