[Openfontlibrary] name

Victor Gaultney vtype at gaultney.org
Mon Oct 30 07:15:51 PST 2006


Dave et al. -

> I believe both projects have reasons for their names.
> 
> I doubt either will change.

I will briefly say that we won't be changing the name of the Open Font
License. :-)

I personally like OFLib for the Open Font Library.

> SIL has tried to evade preconceptions of the term "free fonts" in the
> proprietary font community with the name "Open Font License".
> 
> Bear with me while I spout off on this:
> 
> There the term 'free fonts' is memetically contaminated...

Dave's right here. We've focused on the Open nature (including it in the
name) in order to avoid bad connotations. But we're not at all shy about
being associated with free(dom) movements to those who understand what we
mean by free.

> Plus a lot of awareness-promotion has been done for the OFL, which I
> consider the main (though less interesting ;-) reason for it not
> changing.

Yup.

Victor




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