Re: [Super-tux-devel] herring_song URL

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:30:42AM -0500, Tobias Gl=E4=DFer wrote:
> People arleady use this song, because they get it from a free (as in fr=
ee
> beer) web archieve. If we aren't allowed to distribute it, then this
> archieve isn't either. The only difference is that we would put it unde=
r
> the terms of the GPL.

Which is DIFFERENT than just "free as in beer!"

For example, when I made Tux Paint, I could not use just any TrueType Fon=
ts,
because 99.9999% of them have very restrictive licenses regarding
redistribution.

We cannot /assume/ we can take something and make it Free (as in speech)
without permission!

-bill!