[okfn-discuss] okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 25, Issue 11

[Rufus Pollock]

Kim Tucker wrote:
> Regarding Open Formats, the following might be of interest to the
> discussion (if not already mentioned):

Thanks for the links Kim.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_file_format - the libre knowledge

Yes I'd seen this as well as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format

But I don't think they'd been mentioned on list.

> definition mentions this - http://communities.libre.org/
> 
> and perhaps as an aside:
> http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html

Interesting. I'd hadn't come across this before. Looking through it I 
was fascinated that bitstream had released Vera Sans for use by GNOME 
but require that "The fonts cannot be packaged by themselves for sale, 
but can be sold with any software."

<http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html>

~rufus