[Openfontlibrary] Non-Copyleft Openfontlibrary

[Fontfreedom at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/2008 10:26:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
liam at holoweb.net writes:

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


Canada does indeed have a public domain.
In fact, there are even Canadian public domain websites...
_http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071022-european-copyright-law-used-to-
threaten-canadian-public-domain-site.html_ 
(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071022-european-copyright-law-used-to-threaten-canadian-public-domain-sit
e.html) 
 
>and let people search and filter by licence?
 
That's a fine feature request...However, I still want there to be an  open 
font site without any copyleft fonts, and which encourages people  considering 
releasing their fonts to use alternatives to  copyleft.
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