<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/2/2008 10:26:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, liam@holoweb.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 01:17 -0500, Fontfreedom@aol.com wrote:<BR><BR>> The single priority I have for openfontlibrary is:   Creating a new<BR>> openfontlibrary without any copyleft fonts. (and banning any new ones<BR>> from appearing)   Initially, Openfontlibrary was created as a place<BR>> for fonts dedicated to the Public Domain. Things dedicated to the<BR>> public domain are not copyleft.<BR><BR>On the other hand, anyone can take a public domain resource (in<BR>the USA) and re-release it under the GPL, even if they are not<BR>the creator. That's where the first GNU "tar" program came from,<BR>for example -- by taking pdtar, without consulting the author.<BR><BR>Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain.<BR><BR>Maybe it would be better if OFL made it clear which licence was<BR>in use for a given font, and let people search and filter by<BR>licence?<BR><BR>Liam</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Canada does indeed have a public domain.</DIV> <DIV>In fact, there are even Canadian public domain websites...</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071022-european-copyright-law-used-to-threaten-canadian-public-domain-site.html">http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071022-european-copyright-law-used-to-threaten-canadian-public-domain-site.html</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>>and let people search and filter by licence?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That's a fine feature request...However, I still want there to be an open font site without any copyleft fonts, and which encourages people considering releasing their fonts to use alternatives to copyleft.</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="a8eff80b3e789ee82d5499303b1151d"><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. <a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212416248x1200771803/aol?redir=http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001">Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals!</a></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>