Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Free/Open/Libre

2009-05-13 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: I feel strongly that open is also confusing because it doesn't bring to mind the primary goal, freedom, and this has concrete disadvantages like not publishing source files. Open is open to abuse, yes. He and I have been

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font embedding exceptions

2008-12-31 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2008/12/30 Jon Stanley jonstan...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:47 PM, fontfree...@aol.com wrote: The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Public Domain Fonts due to lack of copyright notice

2008-12-25 Thread Rob Myers
Christopher Fynn wrote: Even if it were legally permissible in the US to distribute pre-1989 fonts without a copyright notice or registered copyright - do you believe it would be ethical do this without the designer / font creators agreement? Yes, because this is how copyright works.

Re: [Openfontlibrary] MIT/X11 License for fonts

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Myers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Assuming Person A is using the MIT/X11 License for their font: Person A created a font called zfff. Uploads it to the OpenFontLibrary. Person B downloads it, modifies it 40%, and sells it as a commercial font, Super zfff. Person C buys the font Super

Re: [Openfontlibrary] design service

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Myers
Can we have a free version of Beowolf sans? ;-) - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary

Re: [Openfontlibrary] design service

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Myers
, Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we have a free version of Beowolf sans? ;-) - Rob. ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary signature.asc

Re: [Openfontlibrary] openfontlibrary.com

2008-11-03 Thread Rob Myers
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: http://www.openfontlibrary.com/ *shrugs shoulders* Well, the best of luck to them. Indeed. May the best project win. Or peaceful coexistence ensue. Is the name a problem, project identity-wise? - Rob.