[OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:

> I heard a rumour that the Reading MATD portfolio site at
> www.typefacedesign.org has PDFs from which fonts were extracted and
> posted on some Chinese or Russian forum (communists, eh? ;-) The

I can hear you! :)

> rumour was that the rips were of much lower quality than the student's
> real, unpublished, OTFs - incomplete metrics, glyph encodings wrong,
> that kind of thing.

Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :)

Alexandre