Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 7 avril 2009 20:53, Alexandre Prokoudine a écrit : On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: And as I said, I would prefer to avoid a new version of OFL until there is a real world example of the OFLv1.1 being defective; until then, the FAQ updates are the best

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 7 avril 2009 10:09, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2009/4/7 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: They would have been better advised to lay minimal conditions in simple words and not let their lawyers pile up unrelated fell-good material in the licensing. Given I basically like

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/4/7 Ed Trager ed.tra...@gmail.com: this newly published IPA Font License in English finally clears the way for inclusion of the IPA fonts in Linux distributions ... Sounds like a good result, as long as it isn't promoted as best practice :-)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: And as I said, I would prefer to avoid a new version of OFL until there is a real world example of the OFLv1.1 being defective; until then, the FAQ updates are the best response. Amen to that? :) Alexandre

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/4/7 Nicolas Spalinger nicolas_spalin...@sil.org: Though addressing his point should not require full rewrite of the license, just of the problem paragraph (another bit should be clarifying the renaming clauses and make it clear they're an option authors can shoose not to exercise). As

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-07 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
OTOH there's the great work of Arne Gotje on CJK fonts which may well provide the community with a .jp font family with more re-usable and community-known licensing. And also don't forget the work of the WenQuanYi project, http://wenq.org/ Thanks for pointing that out. (it's hard for me

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-06 Thread Ed Trager
Hi, All, I've added IPA license detection to Fontaine: r20 | edtrager | 2009-04-06 17:40:31 -0400 (Mon, 06 Apr 2009) | 1 line Added Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) license which is now an Open Source

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

2009-04-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Well well, a positive result for license chat :) Awesome work ed! Regards, Dave On 6 Apr 2009, 10:44 PM, Ed Trager ed.tra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All, I've added IPA license detection to Fontaine: r20 | edtrager |