[OpenFontLibrary] PT Sans

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009 09:53:00 schrieb Dave Crossland:
> 2009/12/30 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
> > weird, did anyone email them to try and get them to use OFL? last
> > thing we need is more fragmentation.
>
> Actually, since SIL holds the copyright to the SIL OFL license text,
> and does not allow modified versions of the license text to be
> distributed, PT is infringing SIL's copyright on this and the fonts
> are thus not legally redistributable.
>
> I also note that the metadata inside the font files is "All Rights
> Reserved." :-(
>
> Andrey, can you tell me an email for anyone at Paratype so we can resolve
> this?

If I may ask: Why should an Open Source/Open Content project continue the 
licensing madness of the US legal system? Outside the US, at least in Civil 
Law systems there is no copyright on legal texts (and I doubt that something 
similar exists in most, if not all, Common Law systems). Modified licenses 
are used all over the place. What is prohibited by law is the use of a 
modified license text as the original, i.e. you have to make clear that the 
license has been modified.

Declaring content to be "not legally redistributable" is thus another proof of 
how poisoned the Open Source/Open Content movement has become. If you want to 
bow to greedy US lawyers, go ahead, but please sign a written declaration 
that you deny the existence of reason and common sense.

Christoph