[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font License submitted to OSI

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nicolas Spalinger pointed out https://ideas.opensource.org/ticket/164
> and I thought this might be of interest to the list :-)

To give you some context let me say that SIL - as the steward of the OFL
for the community at large - had it on the backburner for too long to
submit to OSI to get them to validate the OSD (Open Source Definition)
compliance. We focused on the definition and not on the supporting
initiative... but we interacted directly with Bruce Perens: the original
author of the DFSG and what became the OSD later. The DFSG compliance of
the OFL has been recognized by Debian and with the recent clarified
policy changes and the decision to fight licensing proliferation, the
OSI has regained some relevance...

Michael Tiemman recently got in touch with us about the need to
recommend a good OSI-recognized font license to entities like the
authors of the IPA fonts and so to reduce licensing proliferation.

So the approval process is underway and we're fairly confident they will
recognize that the OFL is already well-established throughout the
community: with the distros and their fonts team, with FLOSS font
designers and the font design toolkit, and with major community figures
via the Go for OFL campaign: http://www.unifont.org/go_for_ofl/

If you know of designers or organisations who wouldn't want to use the
OFL because it is not yet OSI-certified, just a little more patience...

> Cheers,
> Dave

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
http://planet.open-fonts.org


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