Some license recommendations for an open source font? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've worked on multiple bitmap fonts, and would like to open source them in some way of form.

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[-] jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The gold standard would be the SIL Open Font License.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's what my favourite font uses, behold MULI !

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/muli

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 3 weeks ago

Just remember when choosing a license - are you okay with Amazon taking it and using it in their latest billion dollar show on prime video without giving you any credit or money? If so, full on open source away. Otherwise there are licenses you can grant that will allow others to use it for free, but not large corporations. Shop around the licenses