[OpenFontLibrary] licence

Robert Martinez mail at mray.de
Sun Mar 22 09:26:40 PDT 2009


Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/3/22 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
>   
>> Dave Crossland wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/3/22 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I don't know if just removing "often" is enough. Then you say everything
>>>> here is "free software". but there is also public domain stuff,
>>>>         
>> You are right.
>> I was just refering to the use of "free software", as a trigger for
>> association with GNU GPL Richard Stallman etc. I think "free software" is
>> more a synonym for all those things, not so much for public domain,
>> creativecommons, or other stuff...
>>     
>
> Do you think "free culture" is better than "free software"?
>
> I still haven't reached a conclusion on how to described free fonts
> best. "free fonts" speaks to freeware fonts that are often
> non-commercial, non-modifiable and even non-redistributable.
>   
this is really  a hard one.
(let's call them..... "open source fonts" :P -yay!)

maybe you can say:
"All the font files you can download from this site are licensed free as 
in freedom <http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Other_licenses>, ..."





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