Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:32 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:55 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote:
> > Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > > Curtis Napier wrote: [Tue May 09 2006, 09:49:27PM CDT]
> > >> Larry our wonderful mascot is from a font collection that we DO NOT OWN
> > >> THE COPYRIGHT TOO. Our esteemed ex-architect STOLE Larry. Legally
> > >> speaking we have no rights to use Larry whatsoever and if the owner of
> > >> the copyright ever stumbles onto gentoo.org and sees it we are looking
> > >> at a big fat lawsuit.
> > >
> > > Both Jon and I (separately) addressed this earlier, but I'm pretty sure
> > > that although we don't own the copyright to Larry, the font it is from
> > > has a license that allows us to use it freely.  If you have evidence to
> > > the contrary, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do to obtain
> > > any necessary rights.
> > >
> > > -g2boojum-
> >
> > I don't see a license for it anywhere. If we have a copy it would
> > probably be best to have it somewhere easily accessible. Putting it in
> > the images directory on the website makes sense.
>
> I have a copy of the font.
>
> It is ©2000 Ethan Dunham ‐ Fonthead Design ‐ http://www.fonthead.com

I guess I should have mentioned that the "font heads" font is listed
under their "freeware" page.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux