[OpenFontLibrary] Kernest’s Web Font Serving Engine – Fontue – Now Open Source

[Barry Schwartz]

Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> skribis:
> I like the way you're not hiding the origin, license and other metadata
> of the libre/open fonts you include in your catalog  (Ahem unlike others
> apparently: http://readableweb.com/typekit-and-copyright-fraud/ but they
> promised they will work on clarifying it..)

More like blog fraud, if you ask me. :) But TypeKit did make the
mistake of writing language that sounds "legal", rather than
English. (The ISC license is the only I can think of that is written
in English, and for that you have to disregard the disclaimer, which
is written in Alpha Centauran.)

TypeKit embeds my fonts, as a service to others; they should embed the
copyright string with the font, but it doesn't really matter, because
I do not require attribution when someone embeds my fonts. Some _do_
require attribution for embedding (Jos Buivenga, for one), but I'm not
sure it's TypeKit who needs to do the attributing; rather the website
using the font.

Personally, I think requiring attribution for the use of a text font
is somewhat like requiring a painter to follow the signature with a
note about what brand of paint, brushes, palettes, and easles were
used.