On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:05:50 +0100 "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i visited the unifont site, http://unifont.org/go_for_ofl/, and it seems > > that there is a consensus behind the OFL license > > Yes; If you succeed in convincing font developers who normally > distribute fonts with proprietary licenses to use the OFL, please do > post about it here :-) haha, I mean consensous in the FOSS community context! How convincing an font developer to use OFL (perhaps once in a while!)? is another matter.. my personal vision is paciencie, non-provocative argumentation, diplomatic, long term goals, and 'practice what you preach' is needed here, there is a small but active group of font designers, inspired in the work and academic lessons of Ruben Fontana, I think that part of this comunity could agree with the free philosophy.. if they knew a little more! but I only know about 3 local profesional designer that really knows something about FLOSS, or use any free software for graphic design! I believe that we must talk about 'free culture' instead/besides 'free software' when we talk with a the graphic designers, becose the software freedom issue have understood like a software/geek/hacker/technological issue but not design issue, especially 'non-webdesigner' designers > The "Open Font License" always refers to the SIL OFL, as far as I > know. If there is a specific part that is ambiguous, please post a > link :-) http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Licensing "What license should fonts submitted to this project be governed under? The Open Font License." <- Then refers to SIL-OFL, right? then i can say that OpenFontLibrary recommend SIL-OFL too? BTW I want to experiment with parametric fonts with metafont, (for the moment I only playing hacking the computer-modern metafont code.. but i have a little typographic project with that) and I am grateful for the mention of the book Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous in ths list, is like a bible! thanks! great resource! -- Regards JS _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
