[Openfontlibrary] Public Domain?

Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net
Fri Nov 3 00:12:18 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 02:30 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:

> If the OFLB itself is exclusively for OFL fonts (as I suggested),
> perhaps the [http://directory.gnu.org GNU Project Free Software
> Directory] is a good place to list *ALL* the Free Fonts that float
> around on the web, no matter what the license (as long as its free
> software). That is the goal of the FSD, for all Free Software,
> afterall.

You need to make sure that they are in fact Free, and not commercial
non-Free designs copied and marked as Free.  This is common practice,
unfortunately.

I'd rather see that the original font designer have to submit fonts.

Liam

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