[Openfontlibrary] Re: [DejaVu-fonts] forming new maintenance team for MPH 2B Damase?

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:48 +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > Hi, Jon,
> > 
> > Victor Gaultney's investigation of this font, as reported in an
> > earlier email, clearly shows that this font contains exact copies of
> > other people's glyphs where the permission for such copying is not
> > clear at all.
> > 
> > To me, that suggests this font is a legal can of worms that you should
> > not be so quick to jump on.
> > 
> > If OFLB decides to use it, OFLB will have to investigate every single
> > glyph, and will have to cut out all of those where permission for use
> > cannot be obtained.  That might be a lot of glyphs.
> > 
> > - Ed
> > 
> > On 2/11/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sure, we could host it as part of Open Font Library so we can all make
> >> revisions, derivatives, etc. Would that interest you all?
> >>
> >> This will help our community as well to get sorted with packaging and
> >> some other features...
> >>
> >> Jon
> 
> 
> I very much agree with Victor and Ed on this.
> 
> IMHO the OFLB shouldn't jump ahead and accept fonts with potential
> problems before our guidelines are really set.

I'm pro contributions-set-the-guidelines.

> Various potential contributors have expressed the need for quality,
> trust and respect for type design values. If we don't focus on this and
> make it clear throughout the site then I'm afraid we're simply creating
> yet another "freeware font site" that designers will ignore :-(
> 
> My time for this is limited but I see what I can do to help.

Yes, seems to be the case across the board for all ;)

> As for packaging I think we can leave that to the distros at this stage
> and simply provide tarballs.

Ok...

Jon

> 
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