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larsenwork / monoid

Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/
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Go OFL #20

Closed davelab6 closed 9 years ago

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

Please consider switching from MIT to OFL :)

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Problem with OFL is many users don't understand it and contact me asking if x or y is ok - why not MIT?

chase commented 9 years ago

@davelab6 There is literally nothing you can do with OFL that you can't do with MIT. MIT is far more permissive and doesn't bar the usage of a font's name in derivatives.

Is it some kind of requirement in a policy somewhere? If that's the case, I suppose Monoid could be dual licensed.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@chase problem is there are two kinds of OFL - those with and those without reserved font name.

It's a mess really but problem is most font designers use it. I work together with @devalab6 on FontForge and I tried suggesting we removed RFN from our default OFL. it got some odd replies (not form dave or other core members) but others...

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

I think we'll keep MIT for now - see no reason to change :)

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

I can't host it on google fonts then :/ On 3 Jun 2015 1:30 pm, "Andreas Larsen" notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #20 https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/20.

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larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Why not?

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

I'm new to all this but isn't MIT more permissive than OFL? Any whoop: How about apache then? (I think I remember seeing some google fonts having that license)

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

I've just really grown to not like OFL because I get "spammed" by people not understanding it and asking if it's ok to do this and that (answer is always yes) :sunglasses:

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

GF is moving all those Apache fonts to OFL ;)

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Oh no...hmm...guess we could always dual license so it's MIT here on GitHub and OFL on Google.

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

You can add both license files to the repo, that will work

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

ok, will do :)