[Tuxpaint-devel] Georgian font license is GPL, please update COPYING.txt

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

Aha!  I *knew* it.  Please update ka_docs/COPYING.txt accordingly:

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:46:50 +0300
From: Gia Shervashidze <gi...@te...>
To: Ben Armstrong <sy...@sa...>
Cc: Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>
Subject: Re: Please update your Tux Paint translations!


Ben Armstrong იწერება:

>Gia,
>
>On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:42 +0300, Gia Shervashidze wrote:
>  
>
>>Sure, my fonts (all of them and their clones used by approx. 4/5 of 
>>Georgians) since1989 are free, You can do everything with it.
>>For me is little bit unclear what's needed from my side? Some special 
>>procedures?
>>    
>>
>
>Decide what license they are to be released under.  We need to be
>assured that users of these fonts have all of the rights that are
>described here in the Debian Free Software Guidelines:
>
>http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>
>The reason I said it might be easier just to release under the GPL is
>because Tuxpaint itself is already released under that license.  But
>really, any license meeting the requirements of the DFSG will do.
>
>Up until now, what rights the user have has only been stated in vague
>terms.  For instance, I am told that these fonts can be redistributed
>freely, but free redistribution is only one point of the guidelines.
>The others need to be addressed too, or else we need to assume users
>don't have permission.  So please read the guidelines and let us know
>more particuarly what we are permitted to do with these fonts.
>
>Thanks,
>Ben Armstrong
>
>  
>
GPL sounds good for me.
By the way, can You recommend me some actual project on [unicode] fonts 
(Serif, SSerif, Mono) with the same (GPL) license [to try] to include
my Georgian fonts?
BR,
g.\


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