Le 2018-04-08 10:11, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit :
> Nothing is set in stone yet, but some
> time soon he is going to upload a whole new license text (hopefully in
> English), probably something custom-made.
Try to point it to the OFL and its FAQ, it has been created exactly for
this purpose and is Fedora-compatible. Try to explain him that unless he
is ready to pay a lot of money to lawyers drafting a licensing text that
has the expected effect in all the jurisdictions his web site can reach
is quite difficult.
> Along with the fonts, there
> will probably be some sort of software, hence its mention. Apparently
> he is not hostile to linux distros redistributing his fonts, but he
> took issue when I pointed him to our licensing pages and he did call
> redistributors and font web sites "license pushers"
A distribution is a license pusher. However, try to assemble any
non-trivial IT system and you’ll see license pushing is not a piece of
cake. Distributions are doing license pushing for the masses otherwise
no one but the GAFAM and IBM/HP/Oracle could afford to assemble IT
systems (and those usually do not care about small markets like Greece
or the fonts of George Douros).
If he wants his fonts to reach history students and researchers he will
have to pass by some form of license pushing. There’s no way any form of
(micro) payment can work out when any system is composed of tens of
thousands of components that continuously change.
> - Finally, if everything fails, is there a suitable and
equivalent
> replacement for Symbola?
I suspect Noto will eventually cover all the codepoints but being
entirely dependent on the GAFAM is a terrible idea mid term. We need
people like George Douros and they need entities like us or it will
eventually end up in a new lockdown era like in the bad 2000 MS-only
years.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot