Hi NSK,
many thanks for your answer.
According to the best of my partial knowledge, GPL has some restrictions when it comes to linking with non-Free programs.
I read about this and the LGPL.
The font would be delivered with the non-GPL-software and and would be installed in the font folder. The customer would be able to do it self too: Download and install the font in the system. So I wonder if LGPL is necessary here because the font is IMHO not linked... it's just delivered with the software. Or do I misunderstand "linking"?
Thanks again, Lars Naber
On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:06, Lars wrote:
So I wonder if LGPL is necessary here
I'm not sure about "linking" as applied to fonts.
Perhaps they want to include the font in their proprietary source code.
But I have an idea. This is what I would do, personally: I would sell them the rights to use the font as they liked for a good price. Then, I would donate that money to an organisation or use it for further development of GPL or OpenSource code.
Except if the font is really very important. In such a case I would consider forcing everyone to use it only under the license of my choice (for example GPL) in order to make that license more powerful in the market. In my opinion, the more GPL-only software there is out there, the most powerful GPL is.
(IANAL)