[OpenFontLibrary] upload requirement: correct licence meta information

[Iwan Gabovitch]

On http://opengameart.org (drupal-based freely-licensed community game art
site), the moderators get notified via email about a new submission. Any of
the moderators must then 'edit' the node/submission and check "publish this
item" for the art to be visible by non-moderators. There is no great
mechanism for discussing these submissions though.

I think a good way to moderate submissions would be to make it visible (at
least to registered users) but not list it in searches or lists and then
have the system start a new thread on this list, giving links to the page of
the submission. Then we could express our problems or our approval with the
submission and based on the discussion, a moderator can accept the font.

It might be useful to have a "source" or "proof of originality" text field
with the explanation "We check every font manually for copyright compliance.
Please tell us where you got this font or how you made it." This might make
it easier to research whether or not the font is oflb-ok.

Iwan

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:

> its a hard one. The ideal scenario is to have humans help review.
>
> Jon
>
> 2010/3/9 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
> > On 9 March 2010 21:44, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it possible to reliably check for licence meta information in the
> font
> >> files?
> >
> > I think we do check this pretty well. Ben would know best...
> >
>
>
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