[OpenFontLibrary] PT Sans

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Thu Dec 31 01:45:44 PST 2009


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?

Just to illustrate my previous email: the GPL is (C) FSF, yet, the Linux 
kernel and other projects use modified versions of the GPL.

So please stop spreading FUD.

Christoph


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