[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font License submitted to OSI

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Wed Nov 12 21:03:53 PST 2008


2008/11/13 Andrey V. Panov <panov at canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>:
>
> OFL 1.1 explicitly prohibits dual licensing, so the derivative works may be
> distributed only under the terms of OFL.

Only in the same way as the GPL prohibits dual licensing.

> So if someone will decide to instruct
> such the font with xgridfit, (s)he has to distribute the modified version as
> OFL font. Further derivatives and this one may not reveal sources.

Yes, OFL doesn't guarantee sources. The payoff is simplicity.


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