[sr #110486] Invalid license

[Paul Hardy]

Update of sr #110486 (project unifont):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
         Discussion Lock:                     Any => Locked                 

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Follow-up 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


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