[OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:45:22AM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 
> > Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
> > science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :)
> 
> That would be a really really really bad feature to put into
> fontmatrix, I'd say!
> 
> Let's at least try to keep at least a little good will with
> the commercial font designer community, if we actually
> want to see professional font designers start to get
> involved with open source.

This assumes that the mere act of extracting fonts from PDF files is
illegal/immoral, which is not true.

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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