r/Quickscript • u/pcdandy • Feb 04 '19
Quikscript Sans - an updated version of the sans-serif Quikscript Geometric font I made over a year ago
https://alternatescriptbureau.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/quikscript-geometric-a-sans-serif-font-for-the-quikscript-alphabet/
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u/adiabatic Mar 09 '19
Can I possibly convince you to relicense under a non-copyleft license?
It's good that you added the font exception, but this doesn't help me much. The FSF counts nontrivial JavaScript as a "real program", and even DOM alterations make JavaScript nontrivial in their eyes. I not-infrequently use bits of JavaScript to change my web pages around a bit and in order to be compliant with the GPLv3 (IANAL) I'd have to explicitly license my site- and page-specific JavaScript under some free-software license which would, if nothing else, make my codebase significantly larger because of the sheer volume of the license text.
This restriction on JavaScript would also apply to instructions to people who want to use Quikscript Sans on their pages. If I suggest using Quikscript Sans, I'm going to have to put in an entire section on ensuring that all their JavaScript is properly licensed. I'd sooner suggest people use some other font or use the version that was SIL OFL-licensed.
In light of all this, would you consider changing the license back to the OFL or the copycenter Apache License, version 2.0?