[OpenFontLibrary] Should we (via moderation) accept all Free Software licenses?

[Dave Crossland]

It seems fonts developed in sourceforge like systems may not be able
to support font linking at all, or only from their own sites.

So, as policy, should we (via moderation) accept all Free Software licenses?

I'd like a "show of hands" - Please reply with your name and then
"yes" or "no" - we can then debate the "no"s :-)

Dave Crossland: Yes

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/11/11
Subject: Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Open Font Library wants to host your fonts
for @font-face web
To: dejavu-fonts at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>


On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Last week, "Hendry" asked on IRC if the DejaVu TTF were on a central
> website so that they would be easily linkable via @font-face CSS.

Nope, sourceforge doesn't allow direct linking of files (it can only go
through their file release system), so we need another location like
OFLB.

btw, wasn't there a built-in restriction for font linking in the
browsers that support @font-face which limits font linking to the same
domain as the webpage?

Ben




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
Date: 2008/11/14
Subject: Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Open Font Library wants to host your fonts
for @font-face web
To: Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>
Cc: dejavu-fonts at lists.sourceforge.net


2008/11/11 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>:
>
> btw, wasn't there a built-in restriction for font linking in the
> browsers that support @font-face which limits font linking to the same
> domain as the webpage?

Firefox has this, and sites must configure their HTTPDs if they want
to allow cross-site fonts. OFLB will do this as soon as FF implements
the feature (currently its turned on and can only be turned off by
users configuring FF to not do it always, but thats because its in
development)