On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:48 +0100, Nicolas Spalinger 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 > > > I very much agree with Victor and Ed on this. > > IMHO the OFLB shouldn't jump ahead and accept fonts with potential > problems before our guidelines are really set.
I'm pro contributions-set-the-guidelines. > Various potential contributors have expressed the need for quality, > trust and respect for type design values. If we don't focus on this and > make it clear throughout the site then I'm afraid we're simply creating > yet another "freeware font site" that designers will ignore :-( > > My time for this is limited but I see what I can do to help. Yes, seems to be the case across the board for all ;) > As for packaging I think we can leave that to the distros at this stage > and simply provide tarballs. Ok... 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] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
