Yes, that sounds fine. Mark
On 12/02/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 05:32 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote: > > I believe all non-original glyphs have been edited out of the font in > > the latest version. This was undertaken by Paul Wise, I do not know if > > he has committed the changes yet, but it is in progress. > > > > Mr Gaultney's allegation that he "recognizes many font styles" is > > irrelevant. Styles of font cannot be copyrighted. Indeed, there are > > often many different individual font _faces_ by many different authors > > which share _styles_ although the shapes of the glyphs still differ. > > > > Victor is welcome to comb the ranges whose "styles" he recognizes, and > > he will find that while I may have been inspired by previous fonts, > > the glyphshapes are original (the only exception that comes to mind is > > Sylheti). One way you can tell is that I left many of the glyphs > > "unfinished" from my original drawings, that is, the contours are not > > smoothed, which causes certain glyphs to look bad in large type sizes. > > I had intended to fix this, and the vertical alignment issue with > > glyphs in certain ranges (especially Latin) in later versions of the > > font. However I am too busy now to do so. and I wonder if the uniquely > > misaligned appearance of glyphs in the Latin range and the unfinished > > appearance of glyphs in certain other ranges hasn't become a signature > > of the font. > > > > Mark > > Cool Makr, thanks for following up on this. Would you like us to host > your font on openfontlibrary.org so we can help package, develop and > share this public domain font? > > It would be great to continue to push on your great contribution :) > > Thanks > > Jon > > > On 12/02/07, Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, Jon, > > > > > > Victor Gaultney's investigation of this font, as reported in an > > > earlier email, clearly shows that this font contains exact copies of > > > other people's glyphs where the permission for such copying is not > > > clear at all. > > > > > > To me, that suggests this font is a legal can of worms that you should > > > not be so quick to jump on. > > > > > > If OFLB decides to use it, OFLB will have to investigate every single > > > glyph, and will have to cut out all of those where permission for use > > > cannot be obtained. That might be a lot of glyphs. > > > > > > - Ed > > > > > > On 2/11/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sure, we could host it as part of Open Font Library so we can all make > > > > revisions, derivatives, etc. Would that interest you all? > > > > > > > > This will help our community as well to get sorted with packaging and > > > > some other features... > > > > > > > > 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] > > -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
