Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Asian OFLib Domains

[Nicu Buculei]

On 10/29/2010 11:47 AM, Victor Gaultney wrote:


I received the following notice that related to the OFLib. I don't think
it's spam, as there's nothing about the SIL-specific account that
received it that has anything to do with the OFLib. One of you may want
to follow up with them.


That is a well known type of spam, trying to talk you into buying 
unneeded domain names.



Dear Manager,

We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration
center in Shanghai, China. On October,29th,2010, We received HUAXIA
Company's application that they are registering the name
"openfontlibrary" as their Internet Trademark and "openfontlibrary.cn
","openfontlibrary.com.cn
" ,"openfontlibrary.asia"domain names
etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the
brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in
China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to
check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of
the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for
you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third
party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in
china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact
us as soon as possible. Thank you!



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Re: [OpenFontLibrary] MIT Logo

[Nicu Buculei]

From: Ben Weiner 


First ideas were a GNU head and a glyph for GPLv3 + font exception,
and perhaps a dinosaur(brontosaurus?) for MIT. But you will have
better suggestions :-)


Probably for GPL something based on this would be the best (SVGs are 
provided): http://www.gnu.org/graphics/license-logos.html


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Re: [OpenFontLibrary] libre/open fonts

[Nicu Buculei]

fontfree...@aol.com wrote:

 >I highly recommend "libre/open fonts" instead to describe fonts which
 >respect the 4 foundational software freedoms as defined by the FSF in
 >the specific context of fonts: run the program for any purpose, study
 >and adapt the program to your needs, distribute copies of the program,
 >improve and release improvements to the program.
 
Being unfamiliar with the word "libre", I've checked several 
dictionaries online, and printed ones, and i've come to the conclusion 
libre isn't a word in the English language. I did find "librae", which 
is defined as the British Pound. Perhaps we should stick to using words 
which have previously been defined in dictionaries when describing how 
free and open our fonts are?


The term is in wide use http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/libre

It was introduced precisely because the English word "Free" is not good 
enough due to the confusion with "gratis"


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Re: [Openfontlibrary] oflb.org and switching domains

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> Just because of one person we should change urls? I don't agree
> whatsoever and its bad SEO tech and bad policy to move that easily.

I agree with Rejon here about the SEO part. Having "font" in the domain 
name is a good boost for our position in search results.

> Good to have other domains, but all you need is one clear canonical url
> and not confuse people.


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Re: [Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: the OPN Malatashito font and the Open Font Library]

[Nicu Buculei]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Somebody pointed me in an IRC channel about this font not being free.

And I received the following answer:

"Thank you for your email.  I might release them as OFL in the future, 
but for now I would like to keep them free only for non-commercial use. 
  So I guess they should be taken down then.

But if my account still remains on the site, I would like to possibly 
release some of my other fonts as OFL in the near future."


>  Original Message 
> Subject: the OPN Malatashito font and the Open Font Library
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:42 +0300
> From: Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Hi Omar,
> 
> I am one of the admins at the Open Font Library, where it seems you have
> uploaded a couple of fonts, OPN Malatashito and OPN Stun Filla Wenkay:
> http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Omar_the_Radwan/281
> http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Omar_the_Radwan/243
> 
> These are good looking fonts, but there is a licensing problem: you
> included a text file saying the fonts are free for non-commercial use
> ONLY, which is contrary to our site policy, we are collecting only free
> fonts, the non-commercial clause is a blocker.
> 
> At the upload time you had to make a choice about the license and select
> either OFL (Open Font License) or PD (Public Domain) and you selected OFL.
> 
> So my question is: do you want to release the fonts under the OFL or
> keep the non-commercial clause? In the second case, I am sorry to say
> but they can't be hosted on our website.
> 
> Until I receive an answer I unpublished the font (it is visible only by
> the submitter and the admins) so nobody will mistakenly download and use
> them.
> 
> Thank you for your attention.


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[Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: the OPN Malatashito font and the Open Font Library]

[Nicu Buculei]

Somebody pointed me in an IRC channel about this font not being free.


 Original Message 
Subject: the OPN Malatashito font and the Open Font Library
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:42 +0300
From: Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi Omar,

I am one of the admins at the Open Font Library, where it seems you have
uploaded a couple of fonts, OPN Malatashito and OPN Stun Filla Wenkay:
http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Omar_the_Radwan/281
http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Omar_the_Radwan/243

These are good looking fonts, but there is a licensing problem: you
included a text file saying the fonts are free for non-commercial use
ONLY, which is contrary to our site policy, we are collecting only free
fonts, the non-commercial clause is a blocker.

At the upload time you had to make a choice about the license and select
either OFL (Open Font License) or PD (Public Domain) and you selected OFL.

So my question is: do you want to release the fonts under the OFL or
keep the non-commercial clause? In the second case, I am sorry to say
but they can't be hosted on our website.

Until I receive an answer I unpublished the font (it is visible only by
the submitter and the admins) so nobody will mistakenly download and use
them.

Thank you for your attention.

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Re: [Openfontlibrary] red hat liberation fonts

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> I'm cc'ing Andy Fitzsimon and Jack Aboutboul to see who to connect with
> at RedHat for trying to get them dual-licensed at least with Open Font
> License and/or something less restrictive.

It was talked about this on Fedora lists [1], Mark Webbink is the person 
driving this, but he, as General Counsel at RH is very busy and it will 
take some time to get an answer from him.

[1] - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-May/msg00020.html

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