Any objection to the OFL?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 6, 2007

Hello Steve!
Thank you for investigating the issues surrounding the OFL, and  
thanks also to Gerard for suggesting the OFL.

No objection from me...I personally welcome it and think it is a good  
idea. Unless someone else using SignWriting objects...

Steve - I believe you communicated with the OFL people through email,  
is that correct? And I assume they answered all your questions...

I do have a question about the SVG symbols that are already designed  
by Machado in Brazil...

I believe Machado also used a license on his current SVG for the  
SSS-2004, which you can find on this web page:

IMWA Downloads
http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/IMWA-Downloads.html

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...

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...

Or maybe it is easier to start from scratch based on the new PNGs, I  
don't know...

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?

Conflicts between licenses? ;-))

Val ;-)


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On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> 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
>