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The Ubuntu font and a fresh look at open font licensingThe Ubuntu font and a fresh look at open font licensingPosted Oct 14, 2010 9:52 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)In reply to: The Ubuntu font and a fresh look at open font licensing by pabs Parent article: The Ubuntu font and a fresh look at open font licensing
This last point is an interpretation of the OFL not everyone agrees with.
If UFL results in a new generic font licence, I hope the "rebuild from sources" case will be adressed explicitely to avoid this kind of ambiguity.
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Font Licencing "re-build from source" compatibility Posted Oct 14, 2010 10:44 UTC (Thu) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] Yes, the ability to rebuild-from-source will be an important aspect for lots of distributions (in Debian/Ubuntu upstream precompiled binaries are generally stripped from the source packages); it also has an impact on dynamic conversion/compression stages (in which the Google Webfonts API is leading the way). Could you possible collectively file and contribute a write-up detailing the examples/wording that are important from your perspectives:
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