[sugar] Royal National Institute for the Blind low-vision fonts now under GPL v3 - use in OLPC?

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Tue Nov 27 17:58:14 EST 2007


On 27/11/2007, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/07, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> > The lack of the "Font Exception" as recommended by the FSF is a small
> > worry, and I suggest contacting RNIB about this :)
>
> This is truly an important concern as without it, it would force every
> document created with those fonts to be licensed under GPLv3.  Bad
> idea when CC licenses are better for documents.
>
> Is anyone already in contact with the Institute regarding this matter?

I've emailed John Gill (and again personally to him after my initial
post here) but I expect if OLPC contacts RNIB that will have more
weight :-)

-- 
Regards,
Dave


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