[OpenFontLibrary] GPL fonts! (Was: Open Font Library submissions)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 14:45 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :
> >   
> >> - OFL: feels like a regular font, but doesn't have embedding 
> >> restrictions (you can send it to a printer or distribute it as part of a 
> >> brand identity, ideally using the OFLB site URL for the typeface to save 
> >> email bloat).
> >>     
> >
> > And requires all the annoying renaming and fontlog stuff
> >   
> 
> Hmm. Compared to the time spent working on glyphs, making a Fontlog file 
> seems pretty easy and not very annoying. It's a list of contact details, 
> along with dates and a very short summary of the work done. Are you 
> troubled by the idea of putting these details online?
> 
> Renaming seems like it's essential since a remix/derived typeface needs 
> to be identified as such (otherwise it will be hard to find in the font 
> menu...)
> 
> Can you explain why these things are annoying?

Because it seems a lot of fonts authors do not bother with them, and the
renaming part means that without fontlogs tracing font history is
difficult

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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