Hello all,
As I know that some of you are interested by the Open Font License, here
is the message from Victor Gaultney calling for its review.
Please don't hesitate to give your feedback to Victor or Nicolas :)
Kind regards
Sophie
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Subject: OFL revision available for review
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:53:19 +0000
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Hello Sophie,
We're thankful for your ongoing interest in the Open Font License, and have
some good news: OFL-1.1-review2 is now available for your review. This will
be the final stage of review, and we hope to get the final 1.1 out before
the end of the year.
We have taken into account much of the feedback we received on the original
OFL 1.0, as well as OFL-1.1-review1, and have now written OFL-1.1-review2.
These revisions do not change the actual intent of the license - they just
clarify how the intent is expressed and fix some possible ambiguities or
problematic scenarios which have been flagged up by the reviewers. Getting
this new review version out has taken us longer than expected as we had to
focus on various other projects over the past few months, so thank you for
your patience.
You will find the new OFL-1.1-review2, the diff against the previous
OFL-1.1-review1, a summary of the changes as well as an updated FAQ - along
with the corresponding diff - at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_review
Please look at this new review version as soon as possible and give us your
feedback via the OFL-discuss mailing list, or directly to us. Because this
is likely to be the final stage of review, and because we want to get
version 1.1 out soon, we're asking for your feedback before December 8.
As you are probably aware, good progress has been made in the last year
toward improving the font landscape on the free desktop, as well as on a
variety of operating systems. The OFL has become a key component in this,
and we've been able to promote and shape the OFL through various lists, IRC
discussions and FLOSS conferences (Libre Graphics Meeting, the Ubuntu
Summit, the GUADEC, the AKademy, and others).
We're also working to engage the typographic community in supplying
OFL-licensed fonts. These efforts have been successful, and we now have
various new font families released under OFL, and some groups actively
using the OFL, such as the Greek Font Society. There is now a grassroots
campaign coordinated by Unifont.org with sponsorship of various key
organisations in the FLOSS community to encourage more designers to
consider choosing the OFL for their font projects. Representatives of the
GNOME board are in contact with Bitstream to get a re-release of Vera under
OFL and the Dejavu team is seriously considering the OFL too.
So things are seriously moving ahead for free/open font these days and
we're confident the clarifications brought by a final OFL 1.1 will be a big
help in the efforts to make it easier for designers to collaborate on font
design, to improve the overall font landscape and enable more languages -
no matter how complex their script - to be fully supported on the free
desktop. Thanks again for your interest and help.
Looking forward to your feedback,
Victor Gaultney, Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
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