[Pkg-fonts-devel] Open Font License 1.1-review2 available

[Nicolas Spalinger]

>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This announcement sent to OFL-discuss will probably be of interest to
>> members of our font packaging team:
>>
>>
>> OFL-1.1-review2 is now available.
> 
> 
> This is a huge achievement. I'm really enthusiast about the progress
> made possible by OFL when it comes at propoer font licensing issues.
> 
> Work on better and cleaner font licensing will probably one of the
> "TODO"'s for Debian lenny development.

Yes, indeed.

> I would be delighted if all members of this team commit themselves to
> talk with their respective upstream and try to get the font we package
> re-licensed under OFL.
> 
> Nicolas, I think that having a good talk about OFL at Debconf 7 would be
> a great achievement. I bet that Daniel Glassey will be there but I
> really hope that *you* will be also. And I  also hope that most of the
> members of our still small and young team will come there.

Hi Christian and all,

You're right, having a Debconf talk discussing the OFL, and more widely
the subject of collaborative font design and co-maintainership of fonts
 would be very useful indeed.

I should be able to go to Edinburgh for Debconf 7 and I will get this
organized with you and Daniel and others team members who would like to
help.

Alongside the talk, we should probably organize a font BoF with the
members of the team who can be there as well.

> This could be a very good opportunity to really launch something about
> fints in Debian (and derivatives).
> 
> For the moment, we're probably all focused on etch release, but the
> small rest time after the release will certainly be the moment where
> we will have to really work on giving this pkg-fonts team a strong
> restart...

100% agreed!
Let's do it.


-- 
Nicolas Spalinger