[OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 13:58:45 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

> No, not at all -- it assumes that the type designers and vendors
> don't like people doing it, which _is_ true, by and large.  I'm
> saying, let's not do things which we know will cause anger, bad
> publicity and potentially leave a lasting bad taste.

Well, I hate to tell you, but apparently Pierre is up to implementing
fonts extraction from other file formats like XPS :) He needed it for
a project, so he did it.

Limiting users just because they might do something bad means not
trusting them. Now that's lasting bad taste.

Alexandre


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