[Openfontlibrary] Public Domain?

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:28 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 14/11/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a concept of international public domain that the UK respects?
> 
> "It can't be done. There are those who disagree with that position, in
> US law — in UK law it is pretty much accepted that it's impossible —
> and they may even be right, I don't know, though I doubt it. But they
> don't know either. It hasn't been tested in Court."
>  - http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html
> 
> > What is the highest level we can state that will trickle down
> > internationally?
> 
> "Please note that the Public Domain Dedication may not be valid
> outside of the United States."
>  - http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2
> 
> "based on United States law"
>  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
> 
> Because of this, I thought that we were heading towards OFL only [0],
> with work being done to get the Open Font License done up as a CC
> deed.


I still think we should do both Public Domain and OFL license. I'm
asking CC ppl. about this today...

Jon

> I believe that thread was crossposted here and on the ofl-discuss
> list, and has stalled. Not heard back from AaronSw yet...
> 
> [0]: From up this thread:
> 
> On 03/11/06, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/3/06, Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> > > I am getting the idea that the consensus is that OFLibrary is about
> > > collecting OFLicensed (and hence new) fonts, rather than collecting
> > > existing free fonts.  Correct/incorrect?
> >
> > At least this is what I would vote for.
> >
> > Alexandre
> 
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