[OpenFontLibrary] licence

Robert Martinez mail at mray.de
Sun Mar 22 10:33:15 PDT 2009


Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/3/22 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
>   
>> (let's call them..... "open source fonts" :P -yay!)
>>     
>
> I am strongly against the term "open source" because I believe it is
> self-defeating; it encourages proprietary software mixed with free
> software.
>
> IMHO, the open source community is rubbish at expanding free and open
> source software into areas dominated by proprietary software. It is
> the free software community who does this. I am a free software
> advocate, not an open source advocate, and the whole point of my
> involvement in free fonts is to make designers consider their (lack
> of) freedom over the tools they use to design with.
>
>   
100% my standpoint. it was a joke. :P
>> 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>, ..."
>>     
>
> I have reworked the pages, please change things directly as you'd like to :)
>   



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