Re: [ft-devel] max_instructions in ttfautohint

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 15-06-08 05:21 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> On 8 Jun 2015 8:15 pm, "Behdad Esfahbod" <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> On 15-06-08 03:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 June 2015 at 18:37, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden 
>> > <mailto:address@hidden>
> <mailto: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?
> 
> Specifically: It's linked to their rasteriser and they won't share that, so
> publishing it as-is with the rasterisation parts removed wouldn't be useful.
> 
> Generally: at such old school companies who have yet to grasp the opportunity
> costs of being precious with such things, it would be harder to get internal
> approval for liberating anything outright compared to this method.

So, same thing as Adobe ~1.5 years ago.  They need a *guarantee* that they
will get contributions.  Which doesn't quite work.  Your best bet is to show
them that *any* piece of font-related code that has been open sourced has got
lots of contributions, starting on the day after it was released. :)