[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] OFL-FAQ update draft and web fonts paper

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Thu May 23 09:36:49 PDT 2013


On 23 May 2013 02:43, Vernon Adams <vern at newtypography.co.uk> wrote:
> Not sure i understand 100% what you are saying :)
> specifically -  "Free software can be charged for; otherwise it is not free as in
> freedom"
> is there a 'not' missing?

No :)

Free software can be sold. Freedom to redistribute for a fee is one of
the FSF core 4 freedoms.

However, free software is not distributed for a fee 99.99% of the
time, and that's because after selling a copy, the buyer can put it on
the net and redistribute it without a fee if they wish to, so the
original distributor usually just cuts to the chase and becomes the
canonical source for the work.


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