[OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 26 mars 2009 09:33, Alexandre Prokoudine a écrit :
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:50 AM, minombresbond wrote:
>>
>> Warning: SIL Open Font License
>> http://perens.com/blog/2009/02/17/64/
>>
>>
>> "There appears to be an unintended loophole that would allow the
>> conversion of any font under the license to public domain."
>
> Can't tell until he bothers to actually explain the problem. So far he
> only managed to say how lousy creators of OFL were.

Basically, his opinion is that the license does not make clear that
even though the OFL effects do not extend to works OFL material is
embedded in, the embedded material is still protected by the OFL. So
according to him one could strip licensing of any OFL font by
embedding it then extracting the result.

Of course he makes sure SIL won't listen to him by taking such an
aggressive stance.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot