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Jon Phillips | 3 Jan 2007 00:11
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Re: some links

On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 12:30 -0800, Raph Levien wrote:
> Another discussion highly relevant to the OFLib:
> 
> http://typophile.com/node/30101
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> This is what people are looking for when buying commercial fonts. Why
> provide any less with free fonts. We can also totally lose the
> paranoid edge about worrying that people will steal the fonts through
> the PDF.

Yes, I completely agree. The Open Font Library needs some more
developers to help move the system along as well as a couple of people
to keep the list alive. Would anyone like to volunteer for either of
those tasks. I will do my best to help point things out :)

> Why so quiet? I was at the very least hoping to see the results of the
> logo competition. For my money, btw, I'd vote for Renante's design.

:) Yah, the holidays have impacted our schedules :) Don't worry, things
are ramping up again :)

Jon

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Gustavo Ferreira | 19 Jan 2007 17:27
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exljbris

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/
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Dave Crossland | 19 Jan 2007 18:06
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Re: exljbris

Hi Gustavo!

On 19/01/07, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo <at> centroin.com.br> wrote:
> http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/

Thanks for this - I've added it to the list of quality freeware fonts
at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Existing_Free_Fonts -
I hope to ask the owners of these fonts to consider using the OFL when
the OFLB is functional and more attractive.

Here's the non-free license information for these fonts. They are very
nice though! :-)

> > Font license information
> >
> > • This font is free for personal and commercial use

Awesome!

> > • This font may not be modified

Not so awesome :-(

> > • This font may not be distributed -not online nor on any
> >   media- without my permission

Not so awesome :-(

> > • This font may not be sold
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Rob Myers | 19 Jan 2007 19:46
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Re: exljbris

Dave Crossland wrote:

> Here's the non-free license information for these fonts. They are very
> nice though! :-)

They are excellent! But NC-ND read stricly means you cannot actually use 
them in any derivative works at all, for example in any typography. ;-)

- Rob.
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Dave Crossland | 20 Jan 2007 11:04
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Re: exljbris

On 19/01/07, Rob Myers <rob@...> wrote:
> But NC-ND read stricly means you cannot actually use
> them in any derivative works at all, for example in any typography. ;-)

Its not CC ND-NC, and the license is pretty clear that its fine for
use in commercial typographic design work.

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Rob Myers | 20 Jan 2007 17:22
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Re: exljbris

Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 19/01/07, Rob Myers <rob@...> wrote:
>> But NC-ND read stricly means you cannot actually use
>> them in any derivative works at all, for example in any typography. ;-)
> 
> Its not CC ND-NC, and the license is pretty clear that its fine for
> use in commercial typographic design work.

D'oh you are right.

This was one of a number of fonts I looked at via Digg and I confused it 
with another one. The bit about it being very cool still stands.

Sorry about that.

- Rob.
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Jon Phillips | 22 Jan 2007 10:59
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Re: exljbris

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:27 -0100, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/

Could you or someone else on the list try to get this person involved in
our community?

Jon

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Dave Crossland | 22 Jan 2007 12:37
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Re: exljbris

On 22/01/07, Jon Phillips <jon@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:27 -0100, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> > http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/
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> Could you or someone else on the list try to get this person involved in
> our community?

I am planning to do this, but I think active recruitment for this
project is premature at the moment.

I am mainly waiting for OFL1.1 to come out, so that we can do the
Creative Commons style metadata, so that we can plug OFL into ccHost,
and have OFL fonts in the library.

We - well, yourself Jon and Alexandre Prokoudine - also need to pick
the project logo from those submitted to the wiki -
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Contests - so that we
can upgrade the graphic design of the site.

This visual appeal of the site cannot be underestimated, if it is to
attract design talent, imo :-)

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Gustavo Ferreira | 26 Jan 2007 05:46
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FOSS and the Commercial Print World

http://www.constant.irisnet.be/~constant/ospublish/

"Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell discuss the future of Free and Open Source Software for commercial 
printing:

Right now, I would say the biggest weakness from an FOSS point of view is there are few good high 
quality fonts. It is one of those areas which requires tremendous amounts of QA to make them reliable 
in the commercial print world. This is highlighted throughout our documentation."

best,
- g.
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Gustavo Ferreira | 26 Jan 2007 06:19
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Free Fonts...?

http://typophile.com/node/30800
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