Re: Open Font License 1.1review2 - comments?
Francesco Poli wrote:
> The clarification from MJ Ray regarding DFSG#4 made me think that each
> distinct copyright holder had a veto power on _one_ Font Name.
> At least I hoped it was so, since if each copyright holder can reserve
> an arbitrary list of Font Names, the restriction can easily grow up to
> the level it makes finding a non-reserved name nearly impossible.
To make finding a non-reserved name "nearly impossible", then the list
of Reserved Font Names would need to include "nearly" all words or
pronounceable phrases in the English and every other language -
whereupon the font file would be too large to distribute with Debian anyway.
It seems to me that the chances of an abuse of this mechanism on a scale
which can actually cause problems are about at the level of the chances
of someone abusing the language in the BSD licence about change and
distribute - or whatever it was UWash did.
Gerv
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