[Openfontlibrary] Public Domain?

[Dave Crossland]

On 14/11/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>
> Is there a concept of international public domain that the UK respects?

"It can't be done. There are those who disagree with that position, in
US law — in UK law it is pretty much accepted that it's impossible —
and they may even be right, I don't know, though I doubt it. But they
don't know either. It hasn't been tested in Court."
 - http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html

> What is the highest level we can state that will trickle down
> internationally?

"Please note that the Public Domain Dedication may not be valid
outside of the United States."
 - http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2

"based on United States law"
 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

Because of this, I thought that we were heading towards OFL only [0],
with work being done to get the Open Font License done up as a CC
deed.

I believe that thread was crossposted here and on the ofl-discuss
list, and has stalled. Not heard back from AaronSw yet...

[0]: From up this thread:

On 03/11/06, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> > I am getting the idea that the consensus is that OFLibrary is about
> > collecting OFLicensed (and hence new) fonts, rather than collecting
> > existing free fonts.  Correct/incorrect?
>
> At least this is what I would vote for.
>
> Alexandre

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Regards,
Dave