Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

[Urs Liska]

Am 26. März 2016 19:58:01 MEZ, schrieb Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>:
>On 3/26/16 12:09 PM, "Abraham Lee" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>If there are no objections, I will provide you with the latest files
>that
>>existed at the time I closed up shop. I can't stop you from hosting
>them,
>>but if I can request one thing, I'd appreciate it. Would you please
>stop
>>hosting when my new site is made
>> public? That would help me a lot since I'm really the only one who
>can
>>provide full support at the moment and I'd like to minimize the number
>of
>>different versions I'm supporting. Thanks!
>
>
>I appreciate your willingness to share the files that existed at the
>time
>of closing up the shop.
>
>I totally understand the issues of not wanting to have to support
>multiple
>versions, and I'd like to be very supportive of you and your latest
>versions.
>
>I'm concerned, though, about people who have successfully used your
>free
>versions, and then find that the newer version of the font is no longer
>free, but is proprietary.  I think that having a proprietary font is
>inconsistent with free software.  

I would say the "inconsistency", if aby, is that Abraham didn't make the fonts 
proprietary right from the start.

I would see it the other way round: commercial fonts that happen to have free 
ancestors.

>I'm not opposed to you having
>proprietary versions of your fonts.  I'm not opposed to having the
>proprietary versions of the font work with LilyPond.  But I'm concerned
>about having proprietary fonts advertised in LilyPond's official
>website,
>documentation, and mailing lists.

Are they advertised in the website or docs? If so that should of course be 
modified by using free fonts as examples. But I don't think that even is the 
case. 

>
>How would you feel about having a git repository of the fonts, with
>clear
>labeling that the fonts are not your latest and are not supported by
>you,
>as a historical repository of the old version of the fonts?

That might be an idea. 

Urs
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carl
>
>
>
>
>
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