[Openfontlibrary] StixFonts license update

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:13 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> What are your thoughts on this? Are you hopeful to interface these with
>     OFLB, or you have other thoughts? I'm not sure on relicensing these
>     fonts under OFL license...I don't see a clause on this in the
>     contract...
> 
> The fonts certainly cannot be relicensed.  However, in my view the new
> version is a free license (though not compatible with anything else).
> 
> STIX made this change after some communication with me, because the
> previous version was clearly nonfree and Barbara Beeton(*) persevered in
> getting them to review it.
> 
> We urged them to use the OFL (or any existing free license, for that
> matter), but they chose not to.  I don't know why not.
> 
> Best,
> Karl
> 
> (*) For those who don't know her: Barbara is a very long-time member of
> the TeX and typographic communities, and one of the hardest workers on
> the STIX project.

That's what I thought...total bummer on them not using OFL license...can
you ask Barbara, why not?

License proliferation is hell.

Jon

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