Copyright/license stuff

djrrb / Bungee

A chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting.

https://djr.com/bungee

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Copyright/license stuff #31

Closed davelab6 closed 8 years ago

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

Who actually owns the work in the project that will be OFL - I guess Font Bureau?

Will other parts of the project (code, website, etc) not be OFL?

djrrb commented 8 years ago

Actually I am the owner of the work.

I didn't think the OFL applied to anything but the fonts, but I do intend for the dev scripts that I included to also be libre (MIT license? or does the OFL reasonably cover that kind of stuff?).

Regarding the website, I'm not 100% certain. I will work to keep it as open as possible and include a license that makes sense. Does that sound good?

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

Okay cool :)

What I suggest is that things are set up for collaboration like these two:

ie, with 3 files in the root,

[ ] COPYRIGHT.txt - with Copyright 2008 The Bungee Project Authors (david@djr.com)
[ ] AUTHORS.txt - as in those repos
[ ] CONTRIBUTORS.txt - as in those repos
[ ] LICENSE.txt - with something like Different kinds of work in this project are subject to different licenses, appropriate for their kind, such as OFL fonts and MIT python scripts. See each LICENSE.txt files in the relevant subdirectories.

Then a appropriate LICENSE.txt in each subdirectory, each with the copyright as above on line 1.

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

Regarding the website

Probably MIT is best

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

I'll make a PR for this

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

When did you start working on this project? 2013?

djrrb commented 8 years ago

2011! Yikes it's been a while. :-)

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davelab6 commented 8 years ago

The existing copyright notice was (c) David Jonathan Ross 2008–2015 so I've used 2008 as the start date; is this correct?

djrrb commented 8 years ago

Added MIT license to the scripts folder. 16e0a084358f05bf926c63e2c8504fb58a9af646