On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:17 +0000, Victor Gaultney wrote: > 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
Ok, that sounds good. Lets just see if he pushes on it, otherwise leave it up to the fate of who does the work to attempt verify and/or submit it. I agree on the validity of things and legality on all points...I like that term though, "font police." ;) Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
