[Openfontlibrary] On font release practices…

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Sun Jul 13 10:30:49 PDT 2008


2008/7/13 George Williams <gww at silcom.com>:
>
> To me having a license WITHIN the font is far cleaner, far better than
> having separate files. I strongly dislike the idea of separate files
> because I feel it is too easy for a license file to be misplaced, but a
> license within the font will only be removed by malicious users.

I think having a license within the font is the minimal case, and
having an accompanying text file alongside as recommended best
practise is good to cultivate too, so that people are aware what their
rights are (not).

Dave


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