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

[James Weiner]

>>
>> 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

It seems to me that some sort of parent/child relationship tracking  
would solve this more elegantly. The only issue being whether the  
CChost software either supports or could be made to support that.

James