<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>>> What matters is that the fonts are free software -- not freeware. I<BR>>> myself have been reluctant to accept the OFL in part because it has<BR>>> that restriction on unbundled selling. If that weren't a provision<BR>>> with a loophole a couple of parsecs wide, I probably wouldn't make<BR>>> OFL versions of my fonts.<BR>><BR>>I realize this approach may not be for everyone, but after thinking<BR>>about the matter at some length I ended up releasing the font I<BR>>created (Blooming Grove) into the public domain.  My thinking was,<BR>>virtually any license I could release it under would have some<BR>>restrictions that might prevent it from being used in some way that I<BR>>cannot necessarily anticipate beforehand.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm glad to see people analyzing the SIL OFL. Some new font licenses (espically without the bundling restriction and/or the copyleft restrictions) would be a very positive thing for the wider acceptance of open source license fonts.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>