[Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: [Bug 5266] Please consider including the Gentium font family in X.org R7.0]

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 21:54 -0700, Raph Levien wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > What do you all think about this? It is an interesting niche to fill. I
> > wonder if Open Font Library would be a great place to focus around fonts
> > on X, etc, in addition to the other projects discussed.
> 
> I agree that fonts are (and rightfully should be) out of the domain of
> X itself. Modern Linux software is based on client-side stuff like Xft
> rather than using the font renderer in the X server.
> 
> I'm not sure what niche you're thinking about. Making packages of
> fonts is more or less up to the distributions. I suppose it's possible
> to do some kind of "meta-distribution" thing where you basically act
> as a central upstream for stuff like accepting bug reports, but, while
> useful, that prospect does not exactly fill me with excitement.

Exactly...

> BTW, I've more or less decided on OFL for the Inconsalata release.
> 
> Raph

I really need to review OFL more...I'm hoping to get some time to review
and get some informal thoughts from CC's general counsel...Nick and
others, I know I've been saying this, but CC is such a nonprofit and
every person's time is so divided up with tasks/projects.

I do think though that different media and communities require different
licenses. I used to think that having a community that only used one
license is the proper strategy, but after working with CC's ccHost, I
realized it is totally possible to have a community with several
different license options and this actually keeps the community on its
toes and interested in issues surrounding distribution of their fonts,
etc.

I think that support for OFL and public domain are very strong ways to
proceed with OFL, and yes, it should be a meta-hub for fonts for the
freedesktop. I think in fact, that this is a really strong way to
proceed with focus in the community.

Jon

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