> Trademark law does though?
Trademark is about names, i.e., I can't start a new company named
"Google". However, I can legally use the word "Google" (referring to
the behemoth spreading out from Mt. View) without any "TM" afterwards,
as far as I know.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 12:54 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Nicholas, how is that
> > spec for cc-metadata-ification going?
> >
> > Jon
>
>
> Right now we're working on the hosting of the rdf schema, but the rest
> of the metadata-ification of the OFL is pretty much done. We have
On 14/04/07, Nicolas Spalinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have the human readable version, the rdf block and the
corresponding icons.
I'll let everybody know when it's all ready
I think it would be really cool if you could post the work in progress
in a temporary unofficial place for us to
[...]
> Nicholas, how is that
> spec for cc-metadata-ification going?
>
> Jon
Right now we're working on the hosting of the rdf schema, but the rest
of the metadata-ification of the OFL is pretty much done. We have the
human readable version, the rdf block and the corresponding icons.
I'll let
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 01:53 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 13/04/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The list of existing free fonts on the wiki is a list for people
> > > to import into the site, once the site is fully working - that is,
> > > once it can tag fonts with the SIL Op
On 13/04/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One of the things worth doing at the LGM2 in Montréal is expanding the
> fontconfig snippets to mention the open fonts we know about and then
> posting them to fontconfig upstream.
Yes, I agree...we should throw up on a wiki about a bof fo
On 13/04/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The list of existing free fonts on the wiki is a list for people
> to import into the site, once the site is fully working - that is,
> once it can tag fonts with the SIL Open Font License instead of
> Creative Commons Public Domain. Most of
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:56 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> [...]
>
> >> 3) Does your wiki contain instructions on how to map replacements with
> >> fontconfig and maybe other applications? If not, can anyone share
> >> examples?
> >
> > No, it doesn't contain this information. I've never tried
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:29 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi Jeremy!
>
> Great to see a new name here! This project is still in a very early
> stage, but welcome! :-)
>
> On 12/04/07, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A few topics here:
> >
> > 1) The website search doesn't work for
Courier New -
I seem to recall Bitstream, URW, and IBM all releasing versions of
Courier as free "software". Definitely URW.
> I wonder who has solid information on this issue?
URW released their version of the 35 core PostScript fonts under the GPL
many years ago. As far as I know the
On 12/04/07, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> People will also have documents that use specific font names.
Copyright law does not cover usage. Although company lawyers don't
believe this any more.
Trademark law does though?
--
Regards,
Dave
__
> Be warned that typeface designs are subject to copyright in most non-US
> Western countries. So you can't just "re-implement" typeface designs.
1) last I knew, there were typeface copyright laws in Germany and UK (and
France for the Romain du Roi only). If the situation is different
now,
On 4/12/07, Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A good subsitute would have original designs for glyphs but the same
> metrics as the non-free font it aims to replace.
>
The Bitstream Vera set of fonts actually have different metrics than
the corresponding MS Core fonts, right? There was a p
Hi, Denis,
A good subsitute would have original designs for glyphs but the same
metrics as the non-free font it aims to replace.
The Bitstream Vera set of fonts actually have different metrics than
the corresponding MS Core fonts, right? There was a post on the this
list about somebody I th
On 4/12/07, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
[...]
> This is why I am looking f
[...]
>> 3) Does your wiki contain instructions on how to map replacements with
>> fontconfig and maybe other applications? If not, can anyone share
>> examples?
>
> No, it doesn't contain this information. I've never tried this,
> although I think its possible. Please post your solution on the l
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
[...]
> This is why I am looking for alternatives so I can suggest them to package
> use
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
> >
> > I'm not aware of anything like replacements for these fonts. While not
> > free so
> > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
>
> I'm not aware of anything like replacements for these fonts. While not
> free software, you can get these from http://corefonts.sf.net and they
> a
Hi Jeremy!
Great to see a new name here! This project is still in a very early
stage, but welcome! :-)
On 12/04/07, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A few topics here:
1) The website search doesn't work for me. For example, the search can't
find "libertine" but I see it listed in the
A few topics here:
1) The website search doesn't work for me. For example, the search can't
find "libertine" but I see it listed in the wiki.
2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
- Andale Mono
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