On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 01:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The single priority I have for openfontlibrary is: > > Creating a new openfontlibrary without any copyleft fonts. (and > banning any new ones from appearing) > > Initially, Openfontlibrary was created as a place for fonts dedicated > to the Public Domain. Things dedicated to the public domain are not > copyleft. Copycenter licenses such as the BSD license, the MIT > license, etc would also not be copyleft. > > I'm mostly afraid openfontlibrary is moving in the direction of > becoming the (however small) sourceforge of fonts. (Sourceforge is a > popular open source software website featuring mostly copyleft > software.)
> If anyone would suggest the best way to make this happen, I'm all > ears... > > Remember, I own the openfontlibrary.com and .net domains, the > non-copyleft version of openfontlibrary could go there. I started > talking privately with (rejon) about this idea last year, but that > never really went anywhere. Oh, I think that would not be a very good way to split traffic. I understand your points, but in the end I think better off to be more inclusive rather than more exclusive. Yes, originally I pushed very hard for PD only fonts like we have PD only content for openclipart.org My thinking on the subject might have changed now slightly in that I'm most interested in supporting the spectrum of usability. I personally would like to see openfontlibrary (OFLB) be the place for fonts on the free and open desktop. However, in the interest of the project, and contributors, I'm most willing to work together with interested parties to create something together by consensus and especially when I don't know something. The good thing about our setup is that we can support both PD and what the majority of font developers in the FLOSS world (or rather those that speak up / dig in ) suppport: PD and SIL OFL. > I understand the majority (but not all) of the people involved with > this project are pro-copyleft, but I really want to have a > non-copyleft openfontlibrary. > > FF Well, I personally lean more towards more complete freedom as in Public Domain or something more like CC attribution license, but in this project, we have decided to expand the licensing options for the preference of the community. Regardless, I strongly hope that we can work towards commons solution because we don't want to create site proliferation (aka, we have hard enough time keeping forward momentum on the current site, but which is happening now thanks to the efforts of Dave, Ben, George, etc). Cheers Jon > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel > Deals! > _______________________________________________ > Openfontlibrary mailing list > Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
