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

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Dave,

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 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?

Ed Trager: Yes.

Question: Are all of these licenses OSI-recognized?  Maybe we could
have OSI-recognized license tags in one color and non-OSI-recognized
tags in some other color or something like that?


>
> 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)
>