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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:43:35 -0600
From: Kevin Hartig <kevin.hartig@gmail.com>
To: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Licensing question
Hi Tom,
You found the right person. :-)
All the addresses listed except kevin.hartig@gmail.com are no longer valid.
I'd be happy to relicense the fonts under SIL Open Font License. What do
I need to do in order to bundle the new license with the font?
-kevin.
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the Kevin Hartig who is listed as the copyright holder
> for the Calligraphic-Hiragana (fhirw.gsf) and Calligraphic-Katakana
> (fkarw.gsf) Fonts. Are you that Kevin?
>
> If so, your fonts are currently included in the Ghostscript Font
> collection under the following license terms:
>
> These copyrighted fonts were developed by Kevin Hartig. Permission is
> granted to freely distribute them in entirety along with this
> statement.
> This is shareware. If you decide to use these fonts please contribute
> $10 US to help support further freeware and shareware software
> development.
> Questions and comments may be sent to:
>
> hartig@fsl.noaa.gov
> khartig@nyx.cs.du.edu
>
> Kevin Hartig
> 1126 Collyer Street
> Longmont, CO 80501 USA
>
> copyright 1993.
>
> We would like to include these fonts in Fedora (a popular distribution
> of Linux), but the license is not a Free License. Would you be willing
> to relicense your fonts under a Free License?
>
> We recommend the SIL Open Font License (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_web),
> but we have a list of acceptable Font Licenses here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Fonts
>
> Thanks in advance, and apologies if you are not the copyright holder,
>
> Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal
>
>
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