Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization [LWN.net]

Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 20, 2012 19:31 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization by nim-nim
Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

And to complete: any project with non-standard licensing will be converted to a standard license sooner than later if possible just to benefit from the legal certainty of audited terms will well-known effects and because no project member likes having to explain how his license works to every passerby (the exception being if the project member is a lawyer — lawyers love licenses and having to discuss them. Non lawyers would like to forget the subject exists).

Any project which could not follow this process suffers from everything I explained before.

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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 20, 2012 21:16 UTC (Wed) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677) [Link]

> (the exception being if the project member is a lawyer — lawyers
> love licenses and having to discuss them. Non lawyers would like to
> forget the subject exists).

I would just like to point out that not all lawyers are bad. :-)

Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 21, 2012 5:42 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

I didn't write they were (I hope :))

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Posted Jun 28, 2012 10:26 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Let me help you.

They mostly are unfortunately: the very approach of substituting natural human conscience with synthetic piles of buggy legal code tends to twist the very perception of basic concepts like truth and false.

And yes, we can still make such statements without fearing to catch a nice lawsuit -- freedom is still here; from Russia (actually Ukraine) with love :)

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Posted Jul 10, 2012 1:16 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Natural human conscience is wonderful, until you start to get into questions about whether we should or shouldn't kill witches, whether it's okay to copy a new movie (what if it's 50 years old? How about 100?), when we said we were making this software free, did we really mean people could sell it (okay, but that didn't mean Microsoft? Okay, but it's only fair that we have access to their changes, isn't it? We didn't make this software so people could make baby mulchers with it!)

Making agreed upon contracts, whether for everyone or only for a small group, about what may or may not be done is the only way to make sure everyone is on the same page.