On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:13 -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > What are your thoughts on this? Are you hopeful to interface these with > OFLB, or you have other thoughts? I'm not sure on relicensing these > fonts under OFL license...I don't see a clause on this in the > contract... > > The fonts certainly cannot be relicensed. However, in my view the new > version is a free license (though not compatible with anything else). > > STIX made this change after some communication with me, because the > previous version was clearly nonfree and Barbara Beeton(*) persevered in > getting them to review it. > > We urged them to use the OFL (or any existing free license, for that > matter), but they chose not to. I don't know why not. > > Best, > Karl > > (*) For those who don't know her: Barbara is a very long-time member of > the TeX and typographic communities, and one of the hardest workers on > the STIX project.
That's what I thought...total bummer on them not using OFL license...can you ask Barbara, why not? License proliferation is hell. Jon > ______________________________________________ > Openfontlibrary mailing list > Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal advice nor should they be relied upon as or represented to be legal advice. Jon Phillips does not represent any organization through this email address. _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
