Looks like the licensing confusion was an accidental oversight.
~tom
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Subject: Re: License questions about HVD Comic Serif Pro Font
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:01:30 +0100
From: Hannes von Döhren <hannes(a)hvdfonts.de>
To: Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com>
Hi Tom,
I am sorry for the confusion.
I changend the License from to textfile to the CCA 3.0
but it seems i forgot to delete the conflicting parts.
Thank you for your email. I will lchange this.
And: You can use the HVD Comic Serif and include it in Fedora, if you want.
Best regards,
Hannes
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Am 20.12.2010 um 19:29 schrieb Tom Callaway:
Hannes von Döhren (who whomever at HVD Fonts receives this email),
Recently, there has been interest in including the HVD Comic Serif Pro
Font Family in Fedora (a popular distribution of Linux). One of the
requirement for a Font to be included in Fedora is that it must be
available under a Free License (a license that permits unrestricted use,
modification, and distribution).
Initially, it appeared that HVD Comic Serif Pro was under a Free
License, specifically, the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
License.
However, in the Readme.txt file included in the .zip file, the following
terms are also listed:
> This typeface may not be modified in any way unless it contains an
> unmodified copy of this text file and attributes Hannes von Döhren in
> the font metadata.
and
> Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
> in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Original or
> Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed
> and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the
> above copyright notice and this license
Both of these restrictions conflict with the CC-Attribution license, and
make the overall licensing terms Non-Free.
Specifically, it is noteworthy that the CC-Attribution license requires
attribution, so these additional terms are somewhat redundant.
I would like to know if it would be possible for these additional terms
found in Readme.txt can be waived or removed, so that we can include
this font in Fedora.
Thanks,
Tom Callaway
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