[Openfontlibrary] GPL with Font Exception?

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:03 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Dave Crossland wrote:
> > 2008/7/24 Christopher Fynn <cfynn at gmx.net>:
> >> Is there any reason why an option for GPL + Font Exception or even for
> >> GPL is not included?
> > 
> > Lack of developer time.
> 
> I'd say it's also a question of agreeing on the policy.
> 
> I'd vote against unclear PD, pure GPL as options as it will cause future 
> problems. And we really need to clarify the troubles with the current 
> font exception for GPL-ed fonts too.
> Also do we need to allow Vera-style licensing? MIT/X11/Expat? Some type 
> of CC? Licensing proliferation is pretty bad.
> 
> 
> BTW, impressive work on the Jomolhari font :-)
> Thanks for releasing it along with your VOLT sources!
> (You may want to double-check the description metadata field as it 
> refers to GPL, which is apparently not what you intended).
> 
> 
> > I have been waiting for ccHost 5 to be released; its currently in beta
> > and the design is complete but it still has many bugs.
> > 
> > We also have a problem giving volunteers access to the server; someone
> > ought to write a tutorial for how anyone can set up a staging server
> > to do development with so they can submit patches to the developers
> > with accounts (myself, Jon Philips, Alexandre Prokoudine, I think -
> > not sure who else :-)
> 
> I have ported the OFL integration code to work with the current svn 
> trunk of cchost. But yes there still things the devs need to finish 
> before releasing v5. Also the font preview issue is the major blocker.
> 
> We could use the server I host the planet on for testing.

Where is this code at? I don't see the previewer as blocker to moving to
v5 or rather cchost trunk :)

Of course having it would be great...

Jon

> BTW the wiki seems to be hit by spam again:
> http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

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