A recent real-life example, the Rosario font by Omnibus-Type, was hand-hinted by Adobe. http://blogs.adobe.com/edgewebfonts/2013/05/23/adobe-contributes-improvements-to-open-source-font-family-rosario/ http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/typekit-improves-rosario.html That's great! (Pablo Cosgaya granted them permission to use the RFN's.)
But... if you look at https://typekit.com/fonts/rosario or at the pages having the license https://typekit.com/eulas/000000000000000000014188 they make NO MENTION of Omnibus-Type whatsoever. 2013/5/28 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> > On 28 May 2013 23:48, Vernon Adams <v...@newtypography.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 28 May 2013, at 14:39, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > >> I think Victor has been quite clear that he's not at all interested in > >> diluting the OFL model like this, and I would not like to see such > >> additional permissions to the OFL floating around because I know that > >> software corporation's legal departments (ie, HP) consider "license > >> plus additional permission notice" to be a wholly discrete, custom > >> copyright license which immediately rules it out of consideration for > >> their use because they have policies against license proliferation - > >> and for good reason, because such a bespoke license is untested and > >> carries a lot more legal risk. > > > > But Adobe seem more than able to handle this 'additional permission' > right here and now. So i really can't imagine that if this 'additional > permission' had already existed within (or alongside) the OFL, that Adobe > would have said 'whoa guys, don't go near those OFL fonts!!'. Or would they? > > I know that anyone dealing with free software in software corporations > must get their legal departments to review a 'well known license + > other licensing text' license as a new, discrete license, and that > doing that can be (a) hard to get legal's attention in the first place > and (b) they are unlikely to be happy about it because license > profileration is bad. > > Maybe the legal department will wave it though. Maybe not. > > -- > -- > Google Font Directory Discussions > http://groups.google.com/group/googlefontdirectory-discuss > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Font Directory Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to googlefontdirectory-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Un Abrazo Pablo Impallari