Re: [Fontforge-devel] Python access to TTF Names?

[Barry S. <che...@ch...>]

Adam Twardoch <lis...@tw...> skribis:
> But fortunately, this example illustrates perfectly how a commercial
> operation (such as FontLab or DTL) can co-exist peacefully with
> opensource development which is not backed in a commercial way (like
> FontForge). It shows that both variants have their advantages and
> neither is a "perfect solution".

This is a misattribution. FontForge crashes all the time not because
it is non-commercial, but because George writes the code (as a hobby
AFAIK) without checking what he writes or testing it very much (RTFM!)
and few other people make contributions. If a company -- let's call it
"Font Awesome Plus Plus" -- were to provide serious resources towards
the development of FontForge, then the situation could be different,
and the co-existence might be very rewarding.

FontForge isn't copylefted, so of course there would have to be some
mutual goodwill in the relationship, if FontForge were to benefit from
it.

BTW I bought a "consumer-packaged" router recently, and it came with a
copy of the GPL (in its own little booklet) and with a web address
where I could download the source code. My UPS also is supported by
the company with free code, though I think it's under some other
license. Gcc works very well indeed, and a lot of ordinary Windows
users seem to be happier with Firefox than with its non-free
alternatives.