Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

[शिरीष <sh...@gu...>]

2009/3/31 Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@in...>:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:01:08 +0530
> शिरीष wrote:
>
>> The conditions (one can call this a license) under which it is
>> released is clearly mentioned on the site.
>>
>> The attempt to fix this in CC is like trying to put a square peg in
>> a round hole... at best...
>>
>
> Frankly if I was a non-IT person, or no links to FOSS/philosophy,
> then the conditions on site sound plain enough to understand..
>
> So call it the conditioning of mind in FOSS world that before
> looking/trying some "license" is asked for, whatever the conditions
> otherwise stated.
>

without getting further into litigitty :-)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/license

li·cense  (lsns)
n.
1.
a. Official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing. See
Synonyms at permission.
b. A document, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or
legal permission: a driver's license.
2.  Deviation from normal rules, practices, or methods in order to
achieve a certain end or effect.
3. Latitude of action, especially in behavior or speech. See Synonyms
at freedom.
4.
a. Lack of due restraint; excessive freedom: "When liberty becomes
license, dictatorship is near" Will Durant.
b. Heedlessness for the precepts of proper behavior; licentiousness.

tr.v. li·censed, li·cens·ing, li·cens·es
1.  To give or yield permission to or for.
2. To grant a license to or for; authorize. See Synonyms at authorize.

All these definitions clearly make Aksharyogini's conditions get
covered under the word called "license"
without calling it so.

--
can freedom be subject to a license?