Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

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2009/4/3 Mahesh T. Pai <pai...@ya...>:
> This is not a apecific reply to anybody; just posting a couple of
> links for whoever is interested to follow.
>
> As rightly pointed out, the discussion is about being able to include
> the font in Debian "main"; not just "non-free".
>
> The DFSG:- http://www.debian.org/social_contract
>
> For how to choose between "main", "contrib" and "non-free":-
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/index.html#contents
>
> To be specific, the link is:-
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-sections
>
> Some more links:-
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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts
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> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
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> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis
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>
>
> Now, I will go and read Debian-Legal has to say about this. ;-)
>

Yes this all is very interesting... some would be glad to know and
learn from it while others may ask  what is the jurisdiction of these
licenses...

any disputes are to fight in US court or International court (in Hague
or some such place), lot of things change on the basis of that...

Anything to deal with citizens of some countries not subjected to
"internationally accepted laws" (you know such states) because ....
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so all these efforts will be lopsided unless there is a clear and
transparent process to deal with the disputes arising to that agreed
by all members by consensus, not by democratic vote :-)

And then again all these thoughts will be part of debian-illegal :-)