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Ubuntu Font Family PPAUbuntu Font Family PPAPosted Sep 9, 2010 13:56 UTC (Thu) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)In reply to: Ubuntu Font Family PPA by jspaleta Parent article: Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10
While this is certainly an interesting theoretical debate, Canonical has said that the font will be released with a free license when they package it with Ubuntu. So feel free to beta-test it and make screenshots, and wait for the actual release before using it for publication.
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Ubuntu Font Family PPA Posted Sep 9, 2010 20:50 UTC (Thu) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]
It really isn't that interesting and I think I have read the same debate here about 100 times. Yet, it is a good excuse to argue about trademarks/copyrights and that is enough for some people. Maybe I'm just being grumpy!
Ubuntu Font Family PPA Posted Sep 9, 2010 21:07 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Define publication. I'm encourage to render screenshots but discouraged from sending a document to a printer?
If the fonts came with a EULA about what I was actually allowed to do and spelled what I was allowed and not allowed to do..fine. But there is no EULA on those fonts which is a lapse. It doesn't really matter what the license will be in the future or the intention to openly license it at some point. Right now I have no license under the terms of which I can _use_ the fonts even though I can obtain them and install them. Even proprietary licensed fonts come with EULAs which tell me what I can and cannot do with the software. This software doesn't provide any licensing terms at all which describe what is and is not allowed usage. That's a problem.
-jef
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