On 02/01/2008, at 07:53, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Jon Phillips wrote: >> Cool...can you bring them into the fold and/or work with them to >> release >> this all into the public domain or under OFL? >> >> Cool! I think it would be great to get more of these fonts added >> to our >> site as well, and we can help to promote them! >> >> Jon > > Yep, impressive work on the new release. > And notice how font sources (FontLab) and the build script are also > released. A very good sign :)
yes, it is important to note that designers don't need to work exclusively with free tools to collaborate with free software projects. the build script is not functional, since it uses functions from a module which is not publicly available. nothing that prevents anyone from working on the font using his own tools though. > I'm re-contacting upstream - The Ubuntu/Canonical folks - to advocate > officially hosting the "trunk" and the related project information > somewhere (OFLB?) and allowing for the various interesting branches > out > there to be known and possibly merged back. A source repository and a > FONTLOG are really needed IMHO. Of course I'll promote collaborative > design through the OFL instead of the LGPL which is much more > adapted to > fonts not to mention readability. i don't think any of this is necessary to guarantee more work on the font. quite the opposite – it obscures type-design issues with technical complications, making it more difficult for designers to participate. more important, in my oppinion, would be to get ressources and pay christian (or another *skilled* type-designer) for continuing the work on the font. > Andy Fitzsimon as the original designer was willing to relicense so > that > his project can be community-maintained (AFAICT he is not > maintaining it > anymore). IIRC Dennis Jacquerye was working on improving it at some > point as well. > > This font is also linked to the visual identity of various products > and > also Ubuntu's trademark so it needs discussion by the copyright > holder. > > I'll let you know what is being decided. > > Cheers, > > -- > Nicolas Spalinger cheers, - gustavo. _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
