[Openfontlibrary] Non-Copyleft Openfontlibrary

[Liam R E Quin]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 01:17 -0500, Fontfreedom at aol.com wrote:

> The single priority I have for openfontlibrary is:   Creating a new
> openfontlibrary without any copyleft fonts. (and banning any new ones
> from appearing)   Initially, Openfontlibrary was created as a place
> for fonts dedicated to the Public Domain. Things dedicated to the
> public domain are not copyleft.

On the other hand, anyone can take a public domain resource (in
the USA) and re-release it under the GPL, even if they are not
the creator. That's where the first GNU "tar" program came from,
for example -- by taking pdtar, without consulting the author.

Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain.

Maybe it would be better if OFL made it clear which licence was
in use for a given font, and let people search and filter by
licence?

Liam

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