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Re: considering Atkinson hyperlegible font?




On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:36 AM "Yao Wei (魏銘廷)" <mwei@debian.org> wrote:

> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> 於 2021年2月7日 11:27 寫道:
>
>> The download from the webpage comes with this license: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-Font-License-2020-1104.pdf
>> IANAL, but I'm not sure it meets the DFSG.
>
> This looks like a modified version of the SIL OFL, so it might be free
> enough, although I would strongly suggest to the Braille Institute
> they should use a standard license instead of a slightly modified
> version of it.
>

I would guess it is intended to make this font incompatible to SIL-OFL in order to prevent others combining font files.

Quick follow-up for those still interested in this. The font itself has been added as a GitHub project: https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible

With source (VFC), and with a plain OFL license text. I suspect, given the commiters and the fact that the README refers people to Google Fonts, that this is the result of a conversation between folks on the Google Fonts team and folks at the Braille Institute. (Although that's a guess; it could very well have been a conversation with any of the people on this list as well!)

Which is good to see; accidental license incompatibility is often more likely than intentional, plus it's just reassuring that some conversation brought them into more standard release practices.

There's also an onboarding tracking bug here - https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3159 - where it looks like it'd be possible to keep an eye on whatever QA happens.

Nate
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