license

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Sat Oct 30 08:55:10 UTC 1999


Andrew,

I did some more research on the URW-Fonts:

They are GPLed. No Aladdin license. After some searching on the
net I found the latest "original" Aladdin distribution of these
fonts. All data-files in this distribution contain the following:

 Comment Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1996 by URW
 Comment Creation Date: 2/16/1996
 Comment See the file COPYING (GNU General Public License) for licen se conditions.
 
or:

 Copyright 1997 URW Software. See file COPYING for license

or:

 % Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW
 % URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW
 % See the file COPYING (GNU General Public License) for license conditions.



>From the GPL:

 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
 a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
 the scope of this License.

Is the Squeak-Image a "distribution-Medium"? We should add a method like
"Utilities writeFontsToDisk" -- than the image+vm is nothing more than a
"zip" or "tar" with a graphical frontend. 
Of course Squeak can not only write the fonts to the disk, but even use
them, but the use ("running the programm") is not restricted by the GPL.


   Marcus

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