On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:39 AM, <fontfree...@aol.com> wrote: > I do think I want to push for fonts licensed under the MIT / X11 license, on > one of these new sites people are > building, we need some pages urging people to release new fonts under that > particular license. I think this could be a core/reccomended open source > license for fonts.
I don't understand why, either ideologically or practically. Some projects should be public domain, Open Clipart is a good example. But fonts are expressible as self-contained software and so there is no reason not to use copyleft to protect people's ability to use them. MIT/X11 is a minor licence. I wouldn't recommend it over revised BSD and I certainly wouldn't recommend it over a copyleft licence. - Rob.
