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> From: vernon adams <vernnob...@gmail.com> > Subject: [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild > Date: 2 June 2013 18:47:57 PDT > To: "googlefontdirectory-disc...@googlegroups.com" > <googlefontdirectory-disc...@googlegroups.com>, Open Font Library > <openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org> > Reply-To: googlefontdirectory-disc...@googlegroups.com > > This is a follow on to the recent thread "OFL-FAQ update draft and web fonts > paper" that Victor Gaultney started. > > The OFL faq update draft and the way a few large foundries have started > serving OFL'd webfonts brought to my attention the way OFL'd fonts were being > used out there in the wild. Alongside the big foundries serving OFL'd fonts > as webfonts, there are also now a few sites cataloguing fonts, and then > making them available for download as font files, or as @font-face 'kits'. > E.g. http://fontpro.com/ > I think this is all 'great', but these sites are also often not distributing > the OFL along with the distributed fonts. Also of course, these sites don't > make available source files, and are often making modifications to metadata > but then not following the OFL on distributing modified fonts. > > So i'm interested how other designers of OFL'd fonts see this, or how people > in the wider FLOSS community see this situation? Does anyone not care? Anyone > really unhappy about it? Some times i shrug and think 'so what?', but then i > am also very aware that ignoring these breaches 'en masse' does perhaps > undermine the integrity of the OFL itself. It's like we need a Libre Font > Union or something ;) > > -vernon > > > -- > -- > Google Font Directory Discussions > http://groups.google.com/group/googlefontdirectory-discuss > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Font Directory Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to googlefontdirectory-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >
