Re: Pingus font found!!!

[David Philippi]

Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 01.06 schrieb Gervase Lam:
> There is no mention in the GPL of somebody extracting the font from Pingus 
> except for the copyright that Ingo holds on Pingus.  It seems that the 
> best anybody can do is alter the font as much as they want as long as it 
> remains a part of Pingus.

You forgot something very important: importing the font into Pingus puts
it in no way under the GPL. The only case where the GPL extends is onto
derived work, in our case the font isn't derived from Pingus in any way,
it's more the other way round since Pingus uses the font (whereby it
doesn't derive from it). The license of the font won't be changed by
inclusion into Pingus at all, important is that it allows us to include
it.
>From the text of the license it appears that the remaining problem is
that Pingus maybe couldn't be part of a commercial linux distribution
anymore unless we get a permission from the author.

Bye David