[OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:30:12PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:37 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

I'd say that, I personally have no interest in what font vendors think,
I actually do design or digitize the fonts that I use and I never had to
use a propriety font since all such vendors are too lame to produce a
font that has good enough quality to satisfy me.

However, I neither implemented such feature nor do I advocate its use,
however I've many legitimate uses of it that I'm happy with its
existence.

I'm not advocate illegal extraction/distribution of propriety fonts, I
actually find that the best way to fight the immoral, IMO, propriety
software is by not using them neither legally nor illegally.

I really appreciate the art behind type design, but I highly doubt that
type designers in them selves are really interested in locking up their
work of art.

Regards,
 Khaled


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