[Openfontlibrary] Edrip font

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 18 mars 2008 07:07, Andrey V. Panov a écrit :
> Copyright placeholder is an issue or feature of OFL.

I'd take it more as a feature than an issue. The nice thing about the
OFL is that copyright description is formalized and you don't need to
invent your own rules. You just have to trace all the transitions of
the graph on the OFL FAQ page in OFL.txt.

> For example GNU GPL has not
> such the placeholder, it suppose to place copyrights elsewhere. From
> OFL-FAQ I
> can understand that it is recommended to place copyrights and
> acknowledgements
> in FONTLOG.

FONTLOG is good to trace occasional contributions. I don't think it's
good enough for major state changes like the Teams release, especially
when they are subject to specific no-advertising requirements.

I've asked Nicolas Spalinger on IRC he agreed with my reading of the
OFL and Teams licenses.

> By the way the X11 license does not restrict the distribution of
> modified versions or derivative works.

As I wrote before you can always restrict a bit more a derivative of
an X11 licensed work. You can never lift original restrictions. While
the X11 license is very liberal it does have some requirements and
right now the Edrip license (as defined in OFL.txt, that every naïve
user will take as the license of the complete work) fails to properly
relay some of the requirements of the initial Teams release. So it
would fail the kind of license audit distributions do before importing
a new component.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot