Re: Lilypond Feta font license

[David Kastrup]

"Jürgen Reuter" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I just want to let you know that I got a request from two guys that
> state that they are developing a drum sheet music editor.  They ask me
> if I can give my approval to you for switching the Feta font license
> from GNU to GNU+OFL, such that their code need not be open source. 
> They also refer to a discussion in the context of the Waltrop meeting.

Ugh.  As far as I understood the discussion, the idea was to help other
free software projects not under the GPL, not to support non-free
software.  I don't have any copyright in Feta fonts myself i think, but
if the sole currently known reason for relicensing was to help non-free
software, I'd recommend against it.  It would be against the spirit of
the GNU project I believe.

-- 
David Kastrup