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<DIV>In a message dated 11/5/2008 4:38:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rob@robmyers.org writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On Wed,
Nov 5, 2008 at 11:49 AM, <Fontfreedom@aol.com> wrote:<BR>> In a
message dated 11/5/2008 1:23:49 AM Pacific Standard Time,<BR>>
rob@robmyers.org writes:<BR>><BR>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 AM,
<Fontfreedom@aol.com> wrote:<BR>><BR>>> My vision is more
along the lines of:<BR>>><BR>>> Someone takes a basic, high
quality font with a copycenter license or<BR>>> public<BR>>>
domain dedication.<BR>>> They use that as a base, making it into
"the banana font" and Sarah's<BR>>> Swirly<BR>>> Sans Serif, then
sells those as commercial fonts.<BR>><BR>> Why?<BR>><BR>> -
Rob.<BR>><BR>> Why? It's less work to build on something which already
has 60% of what you<BR>> want.<BR><BR>And if I then buy that font and want
to add my own 40% to it, what do I do?<BR><BR>- Rob.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Interesting question. Assuming Person A is using the MIT/X11 License for
their font:</DIV>
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<DIV>Person A created a font called zfff. Uploads it to the
OpenFontLibrary.</DIV>
<DIV>Person B downloads it, modifies it 40%, and sells it as a commercial font,
Super zfff.</DIV>
<DIV>Person C buys the font Super zfff. Person C may not modify it.</DIV>
<DIV>Person A buys the font Super zfff. Person A may not modify it, despite
having been the one who created the font Super zfff is based on.</DIV>
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