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Welcome to the Electronic EULA abstract website
Welcome to our dynamic website devoted to working towards a computerized form of the EULA (End User License Agreement) and Personalization for fonts. For short we're calling this an Electronic EULA abstract or EEULAA.
This site is a Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki), which means that anyone can easily edit any article - with the changes going live immediately. For those not familiar with Wikis, this may sound extraordinarily foolhardy, but many projects have found Wikis an excellent tool for group collaboration.
EEULAA
- The need for EULA abstracts
- EULA abstract (list of data points)
- Electronic EULA Abstract inclusion technology
Font Personalization
- Font personalization
- Font Personalization (list of data points)
Stakeholders
- Stakeholders
- Foundries
- Font distributors
- Font tool makers
- Font customers
- Other stakeholders (including for operating systems and applications)
Technology
- Technology
What does this site hope to achieve?
Initially, we hope that this site will enable stakeholders to produce proposals and working prototypes of systems that utilize abstract EULAs. Ultimately, we intend to build these prototypes into real software -- font editing tools, websites, operating systems, and applications -- all the while taking account of contributions to this website.
Who is working on this project?
An initial group of three got the present initiative moving by organizing the Digital rights in fonts: technology brainstorming session, which took place during TypeCon 2004 in San Francisco, in July. That initial group, which co-chaired the TypeCon session, is:
Attending that event were around 60 people from all parts of the font industry.
We had a second meeting at the ATypI conference in Prague on 2 October 2004 with about the same number of people. Clive Bruton led a discussion there focused on the codification of embedding and usage privileges.
Next meeting will probably be during the Linotype TypoTechnica conference at St. Bride's in London next February.
What else can I get involved in?
There has previously been some discussion on the ATypI members discussion list (http://www.atypi.org/30_members/50_discussion/), and some other places. However we aim with this website to open the discussion to all interested parties, not just those belonging to certain groups. For events where the issues are discussed face-to-face -- that's always good! -- please see our Current events page.
What is a Wiki?
Wiki websites are a remarkable kind of website. Any visitor can edit any page! While this might seem remarkably foolhardy of a webmaster, in practice it often turns out to be an amazingly effective way for groups of people to work on a set of documents. In our case, we hope that the process leads to a collection of articles which reflect a broad consensus from the broad range of font EULA stakeholders. We hope that you will all feel you have had your opinions noted, and don't feel the victim of arbitrary editorial decisions. All this free of the banter to which discussion groups often descend! If you need proof of where a completely open Wiki website can lead, please take a look at Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org).
Some other features of Wiki sites:
- Every change to a page is logged with the user who made the change, the date and the time.
- You can "go back in time" to see how a page looked at any time in the past.
- Each page has a "Discussion" link, where you can talk about the page (we recommend you use this before making substantial changes to major pages, like this page and the EULA abstract page).
- You can create a "watch list" of pages that you want to keep an eye on.
- The Special:Recentchanges page (there's a link in the left column) shows what people have been editing.
How do I get started?
We'd love to hear your comments on what we're putting together, and for you to contribute to the project. Whether you represent a type foundry, a font distributor, a font tool maker, or are a font buyer or an interested by-stander, we'd like to hear your comments.
- Add new Articles!
- Add content to existing Articles.
- Discuss changes on the Discussion page linked to each Article page.
- Make small changes.
- Fix typos.
Please try to be respectful to previous contributors, but still - if you feel a change or an addition should be made - be bold. If you can make someone else's point more clearly than they coud, please edit it! For the Wiki syntax, and more newbie guidelines, please see Wikipedia: How to edit a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page) (Wikipedia uses the same MediaWiki engine as we do). We humbly recommend you click around the site a little before posting changes.
Who runs this website?
This site is kindly paid for by Fontlab Ltd. It is hosted at Wikidev.net (http://www.wikidev.net/), a Wiki hosting company run by Gabriel Wicke in Germany.
