2008/11/11 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
So I think it would be fine for a font to say in its metadata,
Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, George Bush Jr. This
font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the Open Font License
2008/11/10 Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think requiring the font exception would be ideal - ie, removing the
2nd category above.
FWIW, I don't agree. I liked your earlier conception much better: if
it's under a free software license, it can be in OFLB. For one thing,
it makes for
It is possible a font designer would *choose* to license under GPL
without font exception. Not that I know of any actual examples, it's
always just been ignorance, but it's conceivable.
Conceivable yes, desirable for end-users, IMHO I don't think so...
I imagine the user choosing such a font
2008/11/10 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 17:31 +, Dave Crossland a écrit :
So I think it would be fine for a font to say in its metadata,
Unfortunately, in the actual world, that does not work for fonts. I
don't know if it's because no one reads the font
[...]
So I think it would be fine for a font to say in its metadata,
Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, George Bush Jr. This
font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the Open Font License as published by SIL; either version
1.1 of the
Hi Open Font Library list, and Bolt Cutter Design!
2008/11/10 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, sadly, I've had to delete all these fonts.
After investigating a little further, I see at their website -
http://www.boltcutterdesign.net/fonts1.html - that they've decided to
make these fonts
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +, Ben Weiner a écrit :
Dave Crossland wrote:
I would also want to see the fonts follow the recommendation of the
FSF (the GPL's authors) and add the font exception
Is this a concrete recommendation of FSF?
Hi,
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +, Ben Weiner a écrit :
- OFL: feels like a regular font, but doesn't have embedding
restrictions (you can send it to a printer or distribute it as part of a
brand identity, ideally using the OFLB site URL for the typeface to
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 14:45 +, Ben Weiner a écrit :
Hi,
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +, Ben Weiner a écrit :
- OFL: feels like a regular font, but doesn't have embedding
restrictions (you can send it to a printer or distribute it as part of
2008/11/10 James Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can you explain why these things are annoying?
Because it seems a lot of fonts authors do not bother with them, and the
renaming part means that without fontlogs tracing font history is
difficult
It seems to me that some sort of parent/child
2008/11/10 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But Nicolas M is talking about fonts out there in the wild more than
OFLB fonts, I think.
Yes, I'm talking about the actual OFL fonts we've packaged in the past.
(By we he means the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution)
It's very annoying to get an
It seems to me that some sort of parent/child relationship tracking
would
solve this more elegantly. The only issue being whether the CChost
software
either supports or could be made to support that.
ccHost's remix feature is basically this.
But Nicolas M is talking about fonts out there
2008/11/10 James Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are there no font formats that can carry easily accessible meta data like
ID3 does for mp3s etc?
TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is getting
users to put the metadata there. FontForge has made it very easy to
add the OFL to
2008/11/10 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is getting
users to put the metadata there.
And keep it up to date / accurate
Even when there is info in font metadata we often can not trust it
because it has been wrong so many times
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 17:31 +, Dave Crossland a écrit :
2008/11/10 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is getting
users to put the metadata there.
And keep it up to date / accurate
Even when there is info in font
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 16:33 +, Dave Crossland a écrit :
2008/11/10 James Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are there no font formats that can carry easily accessible meta data like
ID3 does for mp3s etc?
TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi Open Font Library list, and Bolt Cutter Design!
snipped
Since this is a free software license, I think the Open Font Library
should be willing to accept these fonts afterall, as long as a little
more work is done to make them licensed ideally.
Ace. Bring
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 ? 16:33 +, Dave Crossland a ?crit :
2008/11/10 James Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are there no font formats that can carry easily accessible meta data
like
ID3 does for mp3s etc?
TrueType and OpenType do this easily enough; the problem is getting
users
I think requiring the font exception would be ideal - ie, removing the
2nd category above.
FWIW, I don't agree. I liked your earlier conception much better: if
it's under a free software license, it can be in OFLB. For one thing,
it makes for a much simpler decision process than we
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