[cc-devel] Adding OFL support to XMP/liblicense
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at creativecommons.org
Tue Oct 21 13:20:38 EDT 2008
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A little while ago, Jon Phillips has recommended you as the ideal person
> to talk to about adding Open Font License (OFL) support to
> XMP/liblicense to be able to flag font and font sources with the license
> both for users and designers. From the git/svn repos and the Debian
> packaging I can see that there are already such definitions for GPL and
> LPGL underway as well. Open fonts have a key role to play in the Commons...
Thanks! I do agree that open fonts have an important role to play in a
free and open technology world!
> The description of the license is here:
> http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
>
> It's a community-recognized license for fonts:
> http://unifont.org/go_for_ofl/
>
> With the corresponding human-readable representation here:
> http://scripts.sil.org/OFL#9ccf5052
>
> I'm attaching a draft rdf snippet of the machine-readable code.
I put that on the web for people joining us late:
http://labs.creativecommons.org/~paulproteus/draft-scripts.sil.org_licenses_OLF_1.1_.rdf
Apparently the given sample isn't quite valid XML nor RDF, but I have a
sense of what it means.
I noticed you created your own terms that mean "Derivatives" and
"Distribution" and "Notice" and a few others. Do you intend to use a
different vocabulary?
Also, I'm not really sure what we would do with the RDF file. Can font
files store embedded metadata about the license they are under? (That's
a serious question!)
I don't think it makes sense in the GUI chooser we bundle with liblicense
to let people chose the OFL.
> Let me know what you think the best way would be for such an approach,
> what needs to be done and how I can help.
I'm CC:ing cc-devel so other minds can think about this too! I do
appreciate you getting in touch with me.
-- Asheesh.
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