d. collins wrote:
dhbailey �crit:
And also a different question from whether or not it is open-source.
What exactly is an open-source font? Or rather, what is the "source" of a font. I see what the source of any piece of software is. But does a font have a "source" other than itself?
Dennis
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The source would be the designer of the font in a font-creation application. Just like an open-source program, an open-source font would have no single person claiming "ownership" of it, so anybody and everybody is welcome to add their own alterations to it without paying a fee to anybody.
In this sense we are discussing fonts-as-used-on-computers (i.e. the computer files which define the fonts) rather than the much broader sense of fonts-as-typefaces which have been used as long as there have been moveable type machines, or fonts-as-letter-designs-used-in-calligraphy which have been around even longer.
Open-source fonts would be true-type fonts or postscript fonts that nobody would own and therefore would be free for all to distribute, use and alter as they wish.
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