On Oct 27, 2013 4:19 AM, "MZMcBride" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's an open question in my mind as to what constitutes a "non-free > >>font," > > > >In this context, I mean "non-free" in the context of libre rather than > >gratis.[1] > > > >[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre > > Right. The "libre" part is what I consider a legal issue, though I think I > understand more clearly now that you're talking about technical policy > here. > > >There are a number of fonts that can be downloaded for free (gratis) > >but are under terms along the lines of a CC -NC or -ND license, and > >there are more that are distributed with various popular operating > >systems so many people already have them for "free" in the loosest > >sense. I'm not counting these as free here. > > Thank you for clarifying this point. It might be helpful to have a list of > gratis/libre fonts and a list of gratis/non-libre fonts, if such lists > don't exist already.
I started building a list a while ago, for similar reasons, limited to fonts being used on the projects. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fonts -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
