Everyone - > Mark Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the author and he released it > into the public domain...
Far be it from me to discourage development of free fonts, but I don't think Mark has the rights to release it into the public domain. In a quick look at the font, I saw many font styles I recognised - including ones that are not currently under free licenses. For example, the Sylheti Nagri glyphs are an identical copy (node for node, coordinate for coordinate) of the Sylheti font available from http://www.sylheti.org.uk/page5.html. That font is freeware, but is not under public domain, or any FLOSS license. I hate to sound like the font police, but this font is not legal, as it contains copyrighted material from other fonts without any acknowledgement. I'm not at all implying that Mark intentionally intended to breach copyright, as it is particularly common in South Asia to find fonts that have been copied with the copyright stripped out, replaced with public domain. Mark may have copied glyphs from one of those fonts. I just think someone ought to do a little more research to be sure that all the contents are truly free. It may even be that some of Mark's sources could be convinced to release OFL versions of their fonts! If we want to get the typographic community's support behind free and open source fonts, we have to prove to them that we honour copyright. Otherwise all our arguments fall flat, and designers will run from FLOSS and the OFLB like the plague. V. ----------------- Victor Gaultney SIL International _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
