Nicolas unfortunately answered to my original mail where the ML address was wrong. ----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org> ----- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:31:59 +0200 From: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org> To: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Cc: pkg-ofl-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, pkg-fonts-devel@list.alioth.debian.org, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>, Raphaël Pinson <raphink@ubuntu.com>, "Daniel T. Chen" <crimsun@ubuntu.com>, Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>, Simos Xenitellis <simos@gnome.org>, Daniel Yacob <locales@geez.org>, Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>, Jeff Waugh <jdub@gnome.org> Subject: Re: [Pkg-ofl-fonts-devel] Merging font teams and share knowledge? X-CRM114-Status: UNSURE (5.2134) This message is 'unsure'; please train it! Christian Perrier wrote : > Hello, > > During the OpenOffice.org conference, I had a very interersting talk > with Nicolas Spalinger who indeed made me discover the work of the OFL > fonts packaging team. Hi Christian and everyone, It was very good to meet you at the OooCon in Lyon. I was going to send such a invitation to collaborate (along with links to the various things we discussed in Lyon tomorrow) but looks like you were quicker than me! > I learned a lot about OFL (Open Font license) and the work done by SIL > about fonts. This page present the licensing model which has been validated by the FSF and the Debian and Ubuntu ftpmasters: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL And this one lists the fonts currently released under OFL: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts The Unifont.org project has a great list of free/libre/open fonts: http://unifont.org/fontguide/ > We both agreed that we really should share the knowledge about fints > and fonts packaging. Having two font packaging teams in Debian sounds > a bit weird. > > From my current knowledge, the font team I created a few months ago > has a lot to learn from the OFL fonts packaging team...and the > opposite is also probably right. > > What do you think about us working out to merge both teams into one? I totally agree with you and I'm all for joining our efforts and working together to improve the font landscape in Debian, in d-i as well as in other places on the desktop. There will be another big step forward to extend the number of well-covered / well-rendered languages and allow more people around the world to enjoy Debian in their mother-tongue. I will look at the bugs we discussed. Most of the work of the pkg-ofl-fonts team is available in this svn repo: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ofl-fonts/ > For instance, some of the font packages we maintain could be worked to > adopt the OFL license instead of the probably less well suited GPL or > LGPL ones. From what I've understood right now, OFL is really meant > for fonts and can probably make font designers less reluctant to > release their work as free "software". Exactly. This is the goal of the OFL: getting more designers to release their fonts under a recognized free license that makes sense to them and that encourages collaboration. Various organisations in the community (freedesktop.org, SIL, Unifont.org, GNOME, KDE, FSG, FSF) are preparing a campaign to encourage designers to consider releasing their work under the OFL and use it as a common base for collaborative font design. I'll send more details about this effort soon. > Please comment by keeping both lists CC'ed (this may trigger some work > for the moderators, but well....). I have also cc-ed people interested in fonts on the Ubuntu and GNOME side. Have a nice day, -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org ----- End forwarded message ----- --
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