[OpenFontLibrary] licence

Robert Martinez mail at mray.de
Sun Mar 22 08:15:36 PDT 2009


Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/3/22 Kess Vargavind <vargavind at gmail.com>:
>   
>> While personally I would prefer FONTLOG, since all capitals stands out
>> among the other files. And to me, all capitals denote a file with
>> metacontents. I did not like this naming convention a few years ago,
>> but its practicality has grown on me.
>>     
>
> Yes, and I like it because its SHOUTING ALL CAPS is useful to say
> "This is an important file you should look at, dear user" :-)
>
>   
>> That aside, why not accept the file regardless of casing and, partly,
>> file extension as well? The versions I remember seeing are:
>>     
>
> I think we'll accept any capitalisation and with or without
> extensions, since they'll be in a zip file for downlaods and sucked
> into a mysql database for display in the OFLB webpages.
>
> This really is about what to uniformly refer to these documents as in
> prose, like on this list or on the wiki - what the house style should
> be for OFLB.
>
> I'm happy to call a fontlog a fontlog, and to encourage people to
> upload fontlog.txt files, for the reasons Nicolas M suggests, but I
> don't mind.
>   
Actually my main concern was the use of the filname on the webpage/wiki. 
When you read FONTLOG there all the time there is no use to make it 
stand out - in contrast to when you brows your local files.
This is why I would be happy to ditch the capitals.



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