On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Hi, > > A little while ago, Jon Phillips has recommended you as the ideal person > to talk to about adding Open Font License (OFL) support to > XMP/liblicense to be able to flag font and font sources with the license > both for users and designers. From the git/svn repos and the Debian > packaging I can see that there are already such definitions for GPL and > LPGL underway as well. Open fonts have a key role to play in the Commons...
Thanks! I do agree that open fonts have an important role to play in a free and open technology world! > The description of the license is here: > http://scripts.sil.org/OFL > > It's a community-recognized license for fonts: > http://unifont.org/go_for_ofl/ > > With the corresponding human-readable representation here: > http://scripts.sil.org/OFL#9ccf5052 > > I'm attaching a draft rdf snippet of the machine-readable code. I put that on the web for people joining us late: http://labs.creativecommons.org/~paulproteus/draft-scripts.sil.org_licenses_OLF_1.1_.rdf Apparently the given sample isn't quite valid XML nor RDF, but I have a sense of what it means. I noticed you created your own terms that mean "Derivatives" and "Distribution" and "Notice" and a few others. Do you intend to use a different vocabulary? Also, I'm not really sure what we would do with the RDF file. Can font files store embedded metadata about the license they are under? (That's a serious question!) I don't think it makes sense in the GUI chooser we bundle with liblicense to let people chose the OFL. > Let me know what you think the best way would be for such an approach, > what needs to be done and how I can help. I'm CC:ing cc-devel so other minds can think about this too! I do appreciate you getting in touch with me. -- Asheesh. -- In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. -- Mark Twain, on New England weather _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
