SIL - as the author and steward of the license for the community at large - does not approve any translation of the OFL as legally valid because even small translation ambiguities could be abused and create problems. Translations do not count as legal substitutes and should only serve as a way to explain the original license. But only the original English version of the license has legal value and has been approved by the community. If you are an experienced translator, you are very welcome to help by translating the OFL and its FAQ so that designers and users in your language community can understand the license better. We also recognize the need for people who are not familiar with English to be able to understand the OFL and this FAQ better - in their own language. OFL 1.0 Documents (for reference only) Translations Reserved Font Names must be explicitly listed alongside the copyright statement in the OFL header.ĭownload "OFL10.txt", Text document, 4KB ĭownload "ofl-faq10.txt", Text document, 18KB The most important change for authors is that no font names are reserved by default.
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A full list of changes from 1.0 to 1.1 can be found on the OFL Review page. We recommend all authors use version 1.1 of the OFL, but version 1.0 is given here for reference.
Please let us know if you have more questions. Although it already covers many items, the FAQ will grow as needed. To make the OFL even more human-readable, we have provided a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to help everyone understand the intent and the practical aspects of using the license itself.
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We have gone through a lot of effort to make our license readable and easily understood by users, designers and software developers as well as package maintainers and distributors. Please visit Donate to SIL International for information on supporting our efforts. We serve the peoples of the world without regard to their material wealth, so we are grateful to those that do fund our work. equip the community to meet its font needs.share our wealth of knowledge and experience in the area of writing systems and pass on our tools.enable others to cater to needs for which we don't have the resources.enable others to participate in our projects.See for a detailed list of free/libre and open source software resources provided by SIL. We have been thinking about more open and participative models for a while, for example through our partnerships with UNESCO ( Initiative and our work on the Gentium typeface. SIL International serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development. It draws inspiration from concepts and elements found in other licenses, but our improvements in the specific area of fonts have made the licensing model work better than other approaches currently in use.
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The OFL meets the specific needs of typographic design and engineering as well as the gold standards of the FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) community, namely the cultural values and guidelines from the FSF 1, the Debian Free Software Guidelines 2, as well as the Open Source Definition 3. It encourages shared value, is not limited to any specific computing platform or environment, and can be used by other organizations or individuals. It enables font authors to release their work under a common license that allows use, bundling, modification and redistribution. The OFL provides a legal framework and infrastructure for worldwide development, sharing and improvement of fonts and related software in a collaborative manner. The SIL Open Font License (OFL) is a free, libre and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software based on our experience in font design and linguistic software engineering. Please get in touch with us if you have more questions. There is also a separate discussion paper on Web Fonts and Reserved Font Names. There is a new version of the OFL-FAQ ( version 1.1-update6) available based on feedback from the wider open font design community. New version of the OFL-FAQ available: version 1.1-update6
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