[OpenFontLibrary] Kernest’s Web Font Serving Engine – Fontue – Now Open Source

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> writes:

> please consider saying Gratis when you don't make your subscribers
> directly pay for the given font and libre/open when you describe
> fonts released under community-approved licenses allowing
> distribution / modification / study / redistribution. 

Many people outside the open-source community don't know those words.
For discussions on a mailing list they're fine, but they don't really
communicate well when your audience is the general public.

Instead of "Gratis" I would suggest the phrase "free of charge", which
I believe nearly everyone in the English-speaking world understands.

As for "libre", it's better to name a specific license, or at least
the general category (permissive versus share-alike).  Not everyone
will understand, but people who *care* about the license will, so.

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