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Why is it not an actual open source license? Perhaps CC-By or something?
CC-By would require attributing on any page you use it on, right? Their license simply says to include the license if you re-distribute the font.
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
> But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Yes. It's so that you have a dated copy. An web-page with the license on it can be retroactively changed.
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> But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Yes. It's so that you have a dated copy. An web-page with the license on it can be retroactively changed.
Are you distinguishing between a PDF that downloads by default (rather than using an in-browser preview)? Because I’m that case, you could download the license page just the same.
The metadata on the license page does not offer the same guarantees as the metadata in the PDF.
The PDF can even be signed; the license page cannot.
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
> But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Yes. It's so that you have a dated copy. An web-page with the license on it can be retroactively changed.
With a few tweaks (monospaced variant), it could make a great coding font. Coding fonts have essentially the same goal: make similar looking characters different: 1liI|, 0O, etc... Code naturally strains our visual acuity: we want to see as much as possible, it means that we may use a smaller font size than we would find comfortable reading text with. Single letter, punctuation, etc... can be really important, in reg…
I made my best attempt at this. I made custom Iosevka[1] builds that use the letter shapes from this font. I call it Hypersevka, and the build plans are available at [2]. [1] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [2] https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/private-build-p...
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
> Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu? Web devs are expensive, sadly, and not everyone has the patience to figure out the DIY platforms (Square, SquareSpace, Wix, etc.). It got a bit better during the pandemic when takeout took off. But generally restaurants need to print menus anyway, so it's just easier to upload that design as…
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
99% of the browsers in use have a built in pdf reader these days.
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I think you probably meant to write " can't change it without".
I was alluding that the Org has the ability to re-upload the pdf in a shared resource without the need of a developer. Vs making the license file a static page that would incur billable hours to update.
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
So organizations that publish documents can store it for legal purposes. A pdf has useful metadata that a text document does not, and can be easily authenticated. If there's a dispute everyone in the legal process understands what a pdf file is.
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But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?
I kind of understand it for restaurant menus. Both "real" restaurant and takeway places need to print actual menus and/or flyers, and it's just easier to create a PDF document and upload it to your website than it is to reformat the document to be useful as web page in many cases if you are not well versed in this. Since PDF readers in browsers got decent, this isn't too much of an issue anymore anyway, IMHO.