[Openfontlibrary] Font File Type and Admins?

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 15:27 -0700, George Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:20, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Is it hard to get at editing a font from the opentype files?
> It is trivial.

Ok, then I think we should minimally accept all open type fonts and
require people to provide these.

Then, at upload, one could upload the full sources for their font in any
format and if these are not uploaded at the same time, it will encourage
people on the project to create/reverse engineer sources which will help
the project and developers/artists. Also, any sources uploaded will have
to be either put into the public domain or licensed with the Open Font
License.

I think this is the best approach for keeping the barriers for entry
into the project as low as possible, but also encourage artists and
others, while also requiring at least the minimal conversion of an older
formatted typeface to the newer, Open Type spec. 

(Yes, we should support all forms of open type)

What do you all think? I think this is the best way forward.

Jon

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