Request revising Ubuntu Fonts License
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu Font Licence |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
Some people in Fedora is reviewing Ubuntu Fonts and intend to packaging it into Fedora.
https:/
But after consulting with Red Hat Legal team we think that the license is non-free.
Quoted from comment 4(https:/
"To "Propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without
permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a
computer or modifying a private copy.
The "except" items are use and modification restrictions. Since the
license only refers to "propogate", and never grants unrestricted use
or modification permissions, the license is non-free.
Canonical could fix this license by simply dropping "except executing
it on a computer or modifying a private copy"."
Since we are happy to see a nice font can get into another distros without any legal issues I hope you can response to this soon.
Thanks.
affects: | ubuntu-font-family → ubuntu-font-licence |
Followed up on:
https:/ /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=961642# c12