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>>>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> I've sent an e-mail message upstream, asking for confirmation that 10.24 |
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> can be used, copied, modified, and/or distributed freely. |
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This is the answer from upstream (posted here with permission): |
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| The license on https://dn-works.com/ufas/ is the only license ever |
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| issued for UFAS software; it was first posted on my old site two years |
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| ago. |
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| Pre-license versions of UFAS were accompanied by the “In lieu of a |
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| license” statement: ‘free for any use’. |
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| That “In lieu of a license” statement is now meaningless. |
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| Any further clarification, interpretation or fall back to some ‘free |
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| for any use’ versions will constitute a new license; I will not do |
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| this. |
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Basically, this means that we cannot assume that the "free for any use" |
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versions are redistributable, at least not if we want to err on the safe |
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side. |
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This makes symbola-7.17 from 2014 the last free version, which was |
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distributable under the following terms: |
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"Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be installed, |
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embedded, opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and |
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redistributed." |
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https://web.archive.org/web/20141027122717/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ |
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So, removal of the package seems to be the only option that makes sense, |
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unless we would downgrade to that old version. |
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Ulrich |
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