[Foundation-l] Software Policy Draft

[GerardM]

Hoi,
By codifying a current practice, you lose the flexibility that we currently
have. There are languages that are not at all supported with fonts that are
available and that are Free and unencumbered. This policy would mean that we
can no longer support all languages. I cannot believe that this is the
intention of the proposal.

The WMF has therefore two options:

   - It becomes instrumental in making fonts available for all languages
   for all major operating systems
   - It does not adopt the proposed software policy

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 9/3/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Policy_Draft
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> This is a first modest draft for a software policy for WMF projects.
> It's an attempt to codify our existing practices re: free file formats
> & open source software. I'd appreciate feedback & edits. If we can end
> up with something that makes sense, I'll put it to a Board vote.
>
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> Erik
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