Comments on: Font License update

By: exljbris

exljbris — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:03:52 +0000

Hi digisus, thanks for your comment. I have thought about this and I don’t think I want to change my distribution thing at the moment, but I’ll keep it in mind.

By: digisus

digisus — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:57:58 +0000

Hi Jos
I also stumbled across this (and your other) fonts and I am very impressed, especially Fontin I find very beautiful. Now, I do not know about your interests or goals with these fonts, but would it not be nice to make them available in some large and popular Linux distributions like ubuntu Linux and others? Your idea of making them available with a permissive license – even allowing modification – is already very close to the free/open source idea, no?
Thousands (perhaps millions) of people using Linux around the world could be using your fonts. Would that not be much greater than to maximize traffic here? (And I think it would increase traffic here even more if you set it up in a clever way). Anyway, perhaps you want to think about it…

By: mspedro

mspedro — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:29:03 +0000

good detail!!!

By: exljbris

exljbris — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:19:04 +0000

I do have an EULA prepared for the fonts I’ll be selling later and that is a reasonable watertight thing.

The few license ‘rules’ on my fontpages are fair an clear (I think). I get only a few questions a month about them. Most questions concern the fact if people can modify contours for a logo. And what can go wrong? Worst thing that happened a few times was the illegal distribution of a couple of fonts … but that’s nearly always solved after a (kind) mail. I guess not all people read the rules

I did recieve mails from free font sites (not DaFont) if they could offer my fonts, but I’ve always said no because I’m eager to keep my my site traffic figures as high as possible.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:56:15 +0000

I don’t think it needs to be watertight, because who is going to have a legal superbattle over this? It needs to tell designers of derivative works, sites like dafont.com, etc., what you would like done, and they’ll do it. (Saying that, though, reminds me that there are a lot of people who get most of their fonts from dafont.com, so setting up an account and submitting your fonts there may get them noticed by new people. It may take a while for them to approve the fonts.)

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:15:23 +0000

Cool, thanks.

By: exljbris

exljbris — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:13:24 +0000

Hi Leon, I did consider OFL but it didn’t fit my thought about how I wanted to offer my free fonts. My simple license is a thing that’s (always) ‘in progress’, so I welcome everyone to tell me where nasty holes can be repaired.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:54:11 +0000

I just stumbled upon your site and was amazed at the quality of the fonts there. Forgive me if you have been asked this question before, but have you ever considered releasing your fonts under the OFL? I’m not a lawyer (or a designer or publisher or font seller or anything to do with fonts such that I would want to sell them), but I’m not sure if the conditions you’ve given are totally watertight. Most lawyer-written EULAs seem way more complicated and strict with terminology.

Anyway, thanks again – you’re doing a great service.

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