2008/11/6 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also wonder whether free software licenses (designed for software) are
appropriate for fonts where a font is first published in a country where
the design is protected?
That is an excellent point!
I think the language in the GPL and Apache
Le Jeu 6 novembre 2008 11:27, Dave Crossland a écrit :
2008/11/6 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also wonder whether free software licenses (designed for software)
are
appropriate for fonts where a font is first published in a country
where
the design is protected?
That is an
2008/11/6 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As far as I can make out Ascender Corp. have absolutely no commitment to
Free/Libré fonts
Here is my point:
They made a free software font and their cash flow was positive.
I did not say they were committed to free software. Obviously they are
2008/11/6 Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:09 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote:
[...]
I'm not criticizing Ascender Corp. who do have particular expertise in
making highly legible screen fonts ~ but, for the money they spent,
could Red Hat not hire any one in the
2008/11/6 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Le Jeu 6 novembre 2008 05:09, Christopher Fynn a écrit :
You don't have to single out Red Hat, Google made pretty much the same
choice with Droid (and didn't bother licensing it clearly at the same
time).
Red Hat's Liberation font licensing isn't
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
Interested? :-)
If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
wiki at
2008/11/6 Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
Interested? :-)
If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
wiki at
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-)
Publish them on the web elsewhere and add a link to the wiki.
OK
If you need space, mail me offlist.
Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work;
Microsoft spent over a million US
2008/11/5 Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've considered adding a lot of typeface
scans to www.fromoldbooks.org but not sure who would benefit.
I think computer users everywhere would benefit, because those scans
can be artfully refined into good revivals that are free software and
thus
You might also have a look at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Alphabets%22
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Illumination%20of%20books%20and%20manuscripts%22
All these books are Public Domain.
Liam R E Quin a écrit :
On Wed,
Answering to my self since I can't figure out how to create an account
on the wiki...
A further look to the Internet Archive brings a lot of Font specimen
books while searching for
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=type%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20subject%3A%22Printing%22
El Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:33:02 +
Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
2008/11/5 minombresbond [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I take this opportunity to ask if you know about scaned images of
public domain or olds typography catalog resources on the web,
I don't know of other such resources,
I also wonder whether free software licenses (designed for software) are
appropriate for fonts where a font is first published in a country where
the design is protected?
^
If you hope to have international recognition of your copyright, the font
MUST be considered
2008/11/6 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also wonder whether free software licenses (designed for software) are
appropriate for fonts where a font is first published in a country where
the design is protected?
That is an excellent point!
I think the language in the GPL and Apache
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:55 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
Interested? :-)
If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
wiki at
El Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:27:26 +0100
Olivier BERTEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
You might also have a look at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Alphabets%22
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also wonder whether free software licenses (designed for software) are
appropriate for fonts where a font is first published in a country where
the design is protected?
^
If you hope to have international recognition of your copyright, the
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