[Freebangfont-devel] Licensing issues

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

The GPL states

    b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
    whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
    part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
    parties under the terms of this License.

Does this mean that the fonts licensed under GPL would not be able to be
installed in Windows?
Also, there is another section which states


These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
it.
....

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
the scope of this License.

So does that solve our problem??

This becomes relevant as I have been approached by several organizations
(one even rang me up) who are trying to work on Windows/Office XP with
the fonts. 

-cheers-
sdg




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