[Openfontlibrary] Non-Copyleft Openfontlibrary

[Christopher Fynn]

"Fontfreedom at aol.com" wrote:

> In a message dated 11/3/2008 12:33:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> ed.trager at gmail.com writes:
> 
>      >Hi, FontFreedom,
> 
>      > ... but I really want to have a non-copyleft
>      > openfontlibrary.
> 
>      >Why?
> 
>     If we are not using "copyleft" licenses, what are you proposing to
>     use in place?
> 
> Copy - Center licenses, Such as:


> The CC-BY License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This license requires attribution - and for any *reuse* or distribution, 
requires that the original license terms must be made clear to others.

Does this mean if someone uses a font under this license to print a book
(which could be considered a kind of "reuse") that the original license 
terms must be printed or indicated in the book? Does there have to be an 
attribution?

> The MIT/X11 License

As a font developer why should I particularly want to let anyone 
"sublicense, and/or sell copies" of a font they got freely from me?

I'm happy to share or  but I don't particularly want anyone sub 
licensing or distributing copies for profit.

> Zope Public License (ZPL)

As a font developer why would I ever want to use a license which states 
"This software consists of contributions made by Zope Corporation"  - I 
don't even know who they are and the  Zope Corporation didn't contribute 
to any font software I made.

- Chris