On 15/11/2007, Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 15/11/2007, Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In this case I'd wait till you read the actual licence in the fonts. > > > > Yes; lots of chatter about how much freedom Google is giving with > > these phones, since what is available now is totally proprietary. But > > I hope they will release it under Apache 2. (GPLv3 compatible :-) > > > >> Ascender is not particularly in the Free and OpenSource fonts camp... > >> They are also the marketing agents for Microsoft(R) fonts. > > > > Yes, this is true, but they did Red Hat's Liberation fonts too, so > > they are more in the sofware-freedom camp then any other proprietary > > foundry, afaik > > I suspect Red Hat paid Bill Davis / Ascender for the Liberation fonts - and > Google has probably paid them for the Droid fonts too. If Google commissioned > the Droid fonts then the choice of license will of course be theirs and, if > the > licence for those fonts is open, the credit for that should probably go to > them > not to Ascender.
Yes, that's a fair point. > Ascender's "web fonts survey" used an incredibly biased set of "tests" This is a great piece of commentary - please add it as a new page on the Open Font LiBrary wiki :-) > Anyway the Ascender survey at least makes the point that we should strive for > *quality* in free and open source fonts. Yes, I totally agree > Perhaps the OpenFont library could Please add this to the Roadmap page of the OFLB wiki :-) Btw, are you a developer? :-) -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary