On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
> Is this the idea you had, or some other idea?
What I have in mind is a tool to help admins easier check uploaded
fonts in case of (c) infridgement complains. WTF is great for that.
Alexandre
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one
of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be
their own?
Yes
For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have
Op vrijdag 08-05-2009 om 15:36 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Ben Weiner:
> I think that reading the license from the file is a good thing to do. I
> think trying to match outlines is less good. The first is like a tick in
> a box ("Is this font correctly licensed?"). The second is like saying
>
>Indeed, for legitimate revivals of old
>printed typefaces that are in public domain
Remember, ALL printed typefaces are in the Public Domain, irregardless of
the copyright status of the fonts they were created from. (In the United
States. Other countries laws differ considerably.)
FF
***
Maybe this is what you're talking about...
http://www.fontmatrix.net/node/44
Olivier
Liam R E Quin a écrit :
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:42 -0400, Ed Trager wrote:
Hi, Alexandre,
[...]
But it works
Does it?
These tools do work for the most common case of a copied
a
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:42 -0400, Ed Trager wrote:
> Hi, Alexandre,
[...]
> > But it works
>
> Does it?
These tools do work for the most common case of a copied
and possibly renamed font, and that's more common than
one might hope. Due diligence in respecting other people's
licenses, even where
Hi, all,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Ben Weiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to
>> check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces
>
> As Ed Trager says in his reply, Fontaine reads lice
Hi, Alexandre,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
>
>> But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one
>> of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be
>> their own?
>
> Yes
Hi,
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Hi,
Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to
check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces
As Ed Trager says in his reply, Fontaine reads license fields from
uploaded fonts. Fontaine is an important part of the OFLB not leas
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
> But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one
> of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be
> their own?
Yes
> For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have to
> try to match glyph outl
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to
> check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces?
How does one do that? Tell us the technical details.
The program I wrote, Fontaine, determines t
Hi
Dave Crossland wrote:
[Aaron Spaulding:]
It might be a major hassle to implement, but I could imagine something like
this for the OFLB, where each font becomes a little repository you can
submit patches to, or start their your fork from. Conceptually, this seems
to already be sort of the mod
Hi,
Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to
check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces?
Alexandre
2009/5/8 :
>
>>> However there still is a gap within this workflow—how do you generate
>>> distributable font files from the UFO?
>>> It would be great if you could do that programmaticaly,
>>
>> FontForge can do it very easily with python scripting:
>
> Could you do this on a webserver? Say, havi
Schrijver wrote:
Hello,
&props to anyone at the Libre Graphics Meeting!
I am not in Montréal, wish you all a lot of fun there, but thought I
could join in the spirit of collaboration :-)
So I put together a page on possible workflows for collaborative
development of typefaces!
at the wiki:
Hi Dave,
On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:21:00 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/5/7 Schrijver :
>>
>> One exciting development I didn’t mention yet on the list, is that
>> GitHub
>> now supports visualising UFO’s:
>
> Whats the best free replacement for github? Trac perhaps?
>
Trac by default uses SVN
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