Re: [ft-devel] max_instructions in ttfautohint

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 15-06-08 03:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
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> On 8 June 2015 at 18:37, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     >> is that a rethoric question? ;-)
>     >
>     > No, quite serious :)
> 
>     How shall this work?  We have no influence on Microsoft...  It would
>     be great if we could snip with the fingers, and the font guys there do
>     a new release of the FontValidator immediately :-)
> 
> 
> I have discussed with MS making a private distribution of the C# FontVal
> source code to people who would like to work on a fresh derivative, which MS
> would retain ownership of, but release under a simple permissive libre license
> on Github. 

Why not they straight releasing it on github?