[Pkg-fonts-devel] Re: [Openfontlibrary] Re: [DejaVu-fonts] forming new maintenance team for MPH 2B Damase?

[Mark Williamson]

Yes, that sounds fine.

Mark

On 12/02/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 05:32 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > I believe all non-original glyphs have been edited out of the font in
> > the latest version. This was undertaken by Paul Wise, I do not know if
> > he has committed the changes yet, but it is in progress.
> >
> > Mr Gaultney's allegation that he "recognizes many font styles" is
> > irrelevant. Styles of font cannot be copyrighted. Indeed, there are
> > often many different individual font _faces_ by many different authors
> > which share _styles_ although the shapes of the glyphs still differ.
> >
> > Victor is welcome to comb the ranges whose "styles" he recognizes, and
> > he will find that while I may have been inspired by previous fonts,
> > the glyphshapes are original (the only exception that comes to mind is
> > Sylheti). One way you can tell is that I left many of the glyphs
> > "unfinished" from my original drawings, that is, the contours are not
> > smoothed, which causes certain glyphs to look bad in large type sizes.
> > I had intended to fix this, and the vertical alignment issue with
> > glyphs in certain ranges (especially Latin) in later versions of the
> > font. However I am too busy now to do so. and I wonder if the uniquely
> > misaligned appearance of glyphs in the Latin range and the unfinished
> > appearance of glyphs in certain other ranges hasn't become a signature
> > of the font.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Cool Makr, thanks for following up on this. Would you like us to host
> your font on openfontlibrary.org so we can help package, develop and
> share this public domain font?
>
> It would be great to continue to push on your great contribution :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon
>
> > On 12/02/07, Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi, Jon,
> > >
> > > Victor Gaultney's investigation of this font, as reported in an
> > > earlier email, clearly shows that this font contains exact copies of
> > > other people's glyphs where the permission for such copying is not
> > > clear at all.
> > >
> > > To me, that suggests this font is a legal can of worms that you should
> > > not be so quick to jump on.
> > >
> > > If OFLB decides to use it, OFLB will have to investigate every single
> > > glyph, and will have to cut out all of those where permission for use
> > > cannot be obtained.  That might be a lot of glyphs.
> > >
> > > - Ed
> > >
> > > On 2/11/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sure, we could host it as part of Open Font Library so we can all make
> > > > revisions, derivatives, etc. Would that interest you all?
> > > >
> > > > This will help our community as well to get sorted with packaging and
> > > > some other features...
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > >
> >
> >
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