Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi, > > I brought this up in my talk at lgm2009, should be online at > river-valley.tv <http://river-valley.tv> soon, and one of the attendees > suggested we ask foundries to have whoever looks out on the web for > their stuff being redistributed without authorisation to keep an eye on > our 'new uploads' rss feed. They have access to their fonts, they have > wtf and so on, they have access to our fonts, and they have an interest > in us not sharing their stuff unintentionally.
I think our moderation approach should tackle the issue from 3 different angles: - enforcing a review queue for all uploads to catch unintended mistakes (pre-moderation) - providing a feed to foundries for them to do the checking (post-moderation) - building a community-maintained db of metadata including fingerprints of restricted fonts (centralized matching resources) Stani Michiels of SPE and Phatch fame came up with a POC python script to create a obfuscated visual fingerprint of a font with its own shapes to allow comparison and matching. I'm thinking that we could distribute such a script and that legitimate owners of restricted fonts could contribute fingerprints to a common database (a bit like the user-maintained community db MusicBrainz). The script could run from fontmatrix's python console for example. BTW the title of this thread is a bit misleading: the libre/open fonts also rely on the author's (c) copyright and chosen free software licensing to remain distributable and modifiable. Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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