[Openfontlibrary] Font submissions

[Jon Phillips]

I'm not sure we should offer all licenses...do we really want to support
license proliferation?

I think we should support best licenses and push the line. What are most
fonts licensed under and/or what are top 3 licenses for fonts out there?

Jon

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 14:59 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2008/9/21 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Only Open Font License and Public Domain fonts are allowed to be uploaded.
> 
> I'm not sure about this; if the OFLB is to showcase the best free
> software fonts, I think it ought to accept anything with a free
> software license; we ought to recommend OFL, but not require it.
> 
> The site currently isn't set up for anything else, but people just
> upload fonts and write a notice in the description detailing the
> license. Given the site is going to get revamped soon this is fine :-)
> 
> (PD is problematic and going to be replaced by CC-0 soon too.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
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