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machado at SOFTWARELIVRE.ORG machado at SOFTWARELIVRE.ORG
Wed Jul 11 00:54:23 UTC 2007


Citando machado at softwarelivre.org:
I've sent the former email before finnishing it :)
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> By the way, I have another small script
So, a have this new tiny script which uses Fontforge to create a  
truetype font file from those svg images. I have this TTF file then I  
guess is roughly 11Mb.
I'll send it to Val to keep the list data volume normal.
If it's OK, I would ask her to put on signwriting.org.

I've  put the IWMA2004 symbols in the very last 25000+ positions of  
unicode utf-8 encoding. I know it is not usual and it is not  
respecting unicode standards. But i did it just to use in my research.
I would appreciate if you, the experts, point me better positions.

All the best :)
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> Quoting Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>:
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>> SignWriting List
>> June 6, 2007
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>> Hello Steve!
>> Thank you for investigating the issues surrounding the OFL, and thanks
>> also to Gerard for suggesting the OFL.
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>> No objection from me...I personally welcome it and think it is a good
>> idea. Unless someone else using SignWriting objects...
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>> Steve - I believe you communicated with the OFL people through email,
>> is that correct? And I assume they answered all your questions...
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>> I do have a question about the SVG symbols that are already designed by
>> Machado in Brazil...
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>> I believe Machado also used a license on his current SVG for the
>> SSS-2004, which you can find on this web page:
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>> IMWA Downloads
>> http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/IMWA-Downloads.html
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>> Machado told me he has a license on it, but I cannot find the license
>> he used...can you find the name of it? I believe it is a free license
>> as well...
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>> Machado said he would help us with creating the ISWA-2007 in SVG...I
>> assume we will use what is already done, and then add the changes...
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>> Or maybe it is easier to start from scratch based on the new PNGs, I
>> don't know...
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>> Will using the OFL for the ISWA-2007 PNGs, create a problem, if we
>> choose to use some of the old SVG to create the new ISWA-2007 svg later?
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>> Conflicts between licenses? ;-))
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>> Val ;-)
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>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We've been discussing licensing issues for SignWriting.  I think    
>>>  the Open Font License is ideal for the SignWriting symbol sets.
>>>
>>> You can read the online version:
>>> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL_web
>>>
>>> Under the OFL, I do not see any negatives and many positives.    
>>> This   is not a major change compared to what we are doing right   
>>> now.
>>> This licensing is important for widespread adoption in the free   
>>> and   open source world as well as the proprietary, commercial   
>>> world.
>>> You will be free to use the symbol sets for any type of writing.    
>>>   You will be free to use the symbol set with software and include  
>>>    the symbol set as part of the software.  You will be free to   
>>> modify   the symbol set as long as you release the modified symbol  
>>>  set  under  the OFL.  You can redistribute the symbol set almost   
>>> any way  you  want.  The main restriction is that you can't sell   
>>> the font by   itself.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have  any concerns?  Please ask questions or read the   
>>>   license itself.  It's about 1 page long and can be read in about  
>>>  5   minutes.
>>> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL_web
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -Steve
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