Hi folks :)
I've contacted a few font authors whose fonts either don't have an explicit license or have an ambiguous/custom license about considering choosing a Fedora-compatible font license [1].
Jason Kottke opened up Silkscreen [2] as a result of one of these emails. I recently contacted Mark Simonson similarly regarding his Anonymous fonts [3] and Pablo Caro regarding Tiza [4] & Bola [5]. (Mark is considering it and says to expect an update 'relatively soon', Pablo is very open to it and I'm discussing with him now the steps he needs to take to move forward.)
I think it would be cool if we kept track of the contact we've made with font authors in order to help them license their fonts with explicit licenses like the OFL. It would help us avoid duplicating efforts (and potentially annoying the font authors :) ) and also help us keep track of the progress we've made.
Would it be okay if I opened up an additional font category for this? I'm not sure what to call it though, maybe Font_license_under_discussion ?
~m
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Font_Licenses [2] http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ [3] http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html [4] http://www.nuevostudio.com/project/tiza/ [5] http://www.nuevostudio.com/projects/bola/
Le Jeu 8 octobre 2009 17:02, Máirín Duffy a écrit :
I think it would be cool if we kept track of the contact we've made with font authors in order to help them license their fonts with explicit licenses like the OFL. It would help us avoid duplicating efforts (and potentially annoying the font authors :) ) and also help us keep track of the progress we've made.
Would it be okay if I opened up an additional font category for this? I'm not sure what to call it though, maybe Font_license_under_discussion ?
That would be more than okay, that would be awesome :)
Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi folks :)
I've contacted a few font authors whose fonts either don't have an explicit license or have an ambiguous/custom license about considering choosing a Fedora-compatible font license [1].
Hi Máirín,
Thanks a lot for your good advocacy efforts for more open fonts :-)
In case you haven't seen it yet, we've put down a few answers to the what's-in-it-for-me? question from a designer's perspective over on the OpenFontLibrary wiki: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/DesignersPerspectiveOpenFonts
And there's always the OFL FAQ: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web
Might turn out to be helpful in your conversations with upstream designers. We're planning to improve the content of the wiki page and your experience and feedback on all these issues is of course also very welcome :-)
Cheers,