Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Your thoughts make sense.
But don't you think that introducing "free/libre" would just add a new
level of confusion?
Thanks, but my suggestion is libre/open fonts not free/libre.
Precisely to reduce confusion.
[..]
(And I'm willing to explain the difference between "gratis" and
"freedom" until every freeware font resource starts labeling its stuff
"gratis/no-cost/giveway/..whatever" instead of just "free".)
Mmm, do you realise that the ambiguity benefits them and that IMHO they
are unlikely to want to clarify? In a similar way than freeware sites or
mainstream computer magazines consciously re-labeling software under
FSF-approved licenses as "freeware"...
How much spare time do you have :-)
Better start soon... or maybe not...
I look at it like this:
there is already a big effort to find words to exactly formulate the
freedom we speak about - and the the "free culture community" has
adopted it so far.
It might just trigger a bigger side-effect than we actually gain by
introducing new terminology.
(most people still don't get the difference between "freeware" and "free
software" still i think it is good to stick with it)
