Thanks Otto!<span></span><br><br>On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Siobhan Bamber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','siobhanbamber@gmail.com');" target="_blank">siobhanbamber@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Looking over the GNU website, I can see that this license isn't 100% GPL-compatible:</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>As has been made clear in the other parts of this thread, SIL=OFL is *technically* not-compatible (the best kind of not-compatible). But we do allow it because it is compatible in all actual real-world cases.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Specifically, SIL-OFL has a clause that requires the font in question not be distributed independently, but that it be bundled with other code. It doesn't specify anything about this other code, so technically any "hello world" program qualifies, thus realistically making it a dead-issue. Since themes certainly qualify as "other-code", we do allow the use of SIL-OFL Fonts in the repository. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">For simplicity, and just not to bore everybody with the complications of licensing and issues of law, we usually just say it's compatible. Because it is, in all cases that actually matter. It's a technical detail that nobody much cares about.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div><div><br></div></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>
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