Is the Open Font License OSI approved ?

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Oct 8 00:53:21 UTC 2007


Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical the current list ?
> The date on the page is: Submitted by Michael Tiemann on Mon, 2006-09-18
> 12:56. :: ie around a year old.

There have been some updates.  See http://opensource.org/licenses/status .

> And is the OFL as is at
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL_web
> OSI approved ?

No, I don't think so.  It appears to be OSD-compliant, thanks to the
loophole in OSD #1 (which doesn't require that the software can be sold
/alone/).

Matt Flaschen




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