[OFL-discuss] [Openfontlibrary] Creative Commons style RDF and "Human Readable" versions of OFL?

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:54 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 09/11/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:42 -0500, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > > </!-- SIL Open Font License -->
> >
> > That is good to see above, however, CC designed that mainly for webpages
> > that license content, so will just have to be clear if using that on an
> > html page what its for...
> 
> Presumably it would be for pages that are indexes for people hosting
> their own Free Fonts?
> 
> No matter how great OFLB gets, people will do this, so its important
> to support it, I think :-)
> 
> > Yes, much...but you all should get your lawyer to look at and suggest
> > some clear names for the requires elements...
> >
> > I would replace the last require with:
> >
> > <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/PerItemSelling" />
> 
> Ah yes of course, <prohibits>... So for <requires> we have
> 
> RenamingOfDerivatives
> ReservedNames
> RenameDerivatives
> DerivativesMustBeRenamed
> MustBeRenamed
> MustRename
> 
> NoSellingByItself
> NoSaleByItself
> NoStandaloneSelling
> NoStandaloneSale
> MustBeBundled
> MustBundle
> Bundling
> 
> and for <prohibits>
> 
> PerItemSelling
> PerItemSale
> SellingByItself
> SoldByItself
> StandaloneSelling
> StandaloneSale
> IndividualSelling
> IndividualSale
> IndividuallySold
> 
>  > We might change some of the urls and create dedicated pages for this.
> >
> > Yes, that is fine...and encourage even, as web.resource.org might not
> > want to add these conditions.
> 
> I'll write to Aaron now :-)

Ok, please do not have him create anything until we finalize our
discussion first. I guess its good to connect with him on the procedure,
but this is a pretty long-term decision that we need to mull over...

> > Yeah, it would be good to make a non-english centric icon for OFL that
> > clearly shows what this license allows with fonts...
> 
> Quick idea that I was thinking of for the OFLB but still may use
> useful here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davelab6/292671179/
> 
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