Tahoma Font License

[Mark Page]

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> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:39:04 -0700
> From: scott at open-vote.org
> To: wine-devel at winehq.org
> Subject: Re: Tahoma Font License
>
> On 05/25/2011 09:27 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Hi mark,
> >
> > 2011/5/25 Mark Page :
> >>
> >> I am a bit confused by the Wine "tahoma" license: "Wine Tahoma Regular" ... GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
> >>
> >> It would be useful to add the font to the ClanLib SDK resources (ClanLib has a zlib style license)
> >>
> >> It is not clear how a font can be licensed using LGPL, since LGPL is based around software libraries.
> >>
> >> Ideally I feel it should have a creative commons license
> >>
> >> I believe Creative commons did not exist when that font was created
> > tahoma.sfd: Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004 Larry Snyder, Based on
> > Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. Font renamed
> > in accordance with former's license. Please do not contact Bitstream
> > Inc. for any reason regarding this font.
> >
> > So just look up the original without contacting bitstream inc. ?
> >
>
> The topic of relicensing wine fonts has come up before. Usually the
> discussion ends with "our fonts aren't as good as you think, and you
> probably don't want them so don't worry about licensing."
>
> I'm not so sure it's true anymore. Symbol replacement, for instance,
> can actually be useful to show special characters on web pages that
> would otherwise come up as question marks.
>
> -Scott Ritchie
>
>

For reference, I have emailed Larry, via an email address I found searching archive wine developer lists ( wierd_w at y***o.com )
 
I sent the email last week. Hopefully, he still is using that address.
 
I will post a message if he does allow a change of license.
 
Mark.