[Openfontlibrary] Public Domain?

[Dave Crossland]

On 15/11/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > > how to offer something like Public Domain for fonts, other
> > > content, etc?
> > "Revised BSD licenses"
>
> Yeah, not in favor of using software/source code licenses for
> fonts/content. It is another fuzzy legal area.

If you're unsure, does that mean we'll consolidate on OFL? ;-)

Since I hope this may be of use for OCAL, I actually went and examined
the license texts, and I'd say that the X11 license seems the most
suitable for fonts as the BSD ones distinguish soucecode and binary
versions.

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License :

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Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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What do you think if we were to s/Software/Font/ ?

> > > Crap, I wonder where this new enlightenment leaves the Open Clip Art
> > > Library....man...
> >
> > Does PD allow you to relicense? If so, I imagine that relicensing
> > under an all-permissive non-copyleft license would be quite
> > uncontroversial, especially when presented as a reaffirmation of the
> > international intention of the project.
>
> Public Domain allows one to do anything with the PD declared content,
> including re-licensing.

Sounds like OCAL is fine then :-)

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Regards,
Dave