[Pkg-fonts-devel] final stixfonts licence

[Paul Wise]

Hi all,

The final STIX fonts licence is available (quoted below too):

http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html

Here are some of the comments they got on it:

http://www.stixfonts.org/feedback-license.html

Here are some of the more general comments:

http://www.stixfonts.org/feedback-general.html

And the licence itself:

Final STIX Fonts License

This new (and hopefully final) license text has been issued by the STI
Pub Companies as our response to the changes suggested by reviewers of
the revised license draft. This final license text represents our best
efforts at a compromise between the requirements of our contractual
agreements with subcontractors and the suggestions we have received.
We believe that this license is fully compatible with the requirements
of the SIL Open Font license. We hope that this license will be
acceptable to all parties and thus will allow for the widest possible
dissemination of the STIX Fonts. When the beta version of the STIX
Fonts is available for download, this license will appear as a "click
through" page that must be accepted in order to download a free copy
of the fonts.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

   1. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of the STIX Fonts™ set accompanying this license
(collectively, the "Fonts") and the associated documentation files
(collectively with the Fonts, the "Font Software"), to reproduce and
distribute the Font Software, including the rights to use, copy, merge
and publish copies of the Font Software, and to permit persons to whom
the Font Software is furnished to do so same, subject to the following
terms and conditions (the "License").
   2. The following copyright and trademark notice and these Terms and
Conditions shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font
typefaces and any derivative work created as permitted under this
License:

      Copyright (c) 2001-2005 by the STI Pub Companies, consisting of
the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the
American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society,
Elsevier, Inc., and The Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1998-2003 by MicroPress, Inc.
Portions copyright (c) 1990 by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
STIX Fonts™ is a trademark of The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc.
   3. You may (a) convert the Fonts from one format to another (e.g.,
from TrueType to PostScript), in which case the normal and reasonable
distortion that occurs during such conversion shall be permitted and
(b) embed or include a subset of the Fonts in a document for the
purposes of allowing users to read text in the document that utilizes
the Fonts. In each case, you may use the STIX Fonts™ mark to designate
the resulting Fonts or subset of the Fonts.
   4. You may also (a) add glyphs or characters to the Fonts, or any
other material to the Fonts, or modify the shape of existing glyphs,
so long as the base set of glyphs is not removed and (b) delete glyphs
or characters, or any other material, from the Fonts, provided that
the resulting font set is distributed with the following disclaimer:
"This [name] font does not include all the Unicode points covered in
the STIX Fonts™ set but may include others." In each case, the name
used to denote the resulting font set shall not include the term
"STIX" or any similar term.
   5. You may charge a fee in connection with the distribution of the
Font Software, provided that no copy of one or more of the individual
Font typefaces that form the STIX Fonts™ set may be sold by itself.
   6. THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO
EVENT SHALL MICROPRESS OR ANY OF THE STI PUB COMPANIES BE LIABLE FOR
ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM OR
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
   7. Except as contained in the notice set forth in Section 2, the
names MicroPress Inc. and STI Pub Companies, as well as the names of
the companies/organizations that compose the STI Pub Companies, shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
other dealings in the Font Software without the prior written consent
of the respective company or organization.
   8. This License shall become null and void in the event of any
material breach of the Terms and Conditions herein by licensee.
   9. A substantial portion of the STIX Fonts set was developed by
MicroPress Inc. for the STI Pub Companies. To obtain additional
mathematical fonts, please contact MicroPress, Inc., 68-30 Harrow
Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375, USA – Phone: (718) 575-1816.

Last updated: 11/16/07

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