[Openfontlibrary] more updates on Open Font Library

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:14 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure...fonts are a very murky area which pushes me to think
> > public domain is the way (like clip art). The GNU GPL is meant for
> > source code, so its application to non-source code, as in fonts, is not
> > accurate, so flawed. I don't think allowing all the cc licenses is very
> > clear, but possible.
> 
> It's quite accurate in contrary, if we are talking about availability
> of FontForge projects :)
> 
> But my main intent mentioning GPL was that some fonts are already
> released under terms of GNU GPL.

Yes, and this is a misunderstanding of the GPL and its application to
non-software...all this licensing technicalities...ugh!

 :)

> > I don't know about the Free Art License, so am curious about this one as
> > well.
> 
> artlibre.org

cool...I still am not interested int this license because of adding yet
another license to the mix of confusion upon confusion...

> Alexandre

Jon

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