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Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign! Over the last twenty four hours I have had to think (constructively) about what to do about Freejack's Fonts, and thanks to Don Hosek, it looks like I've come up with a winning plan. Essentially it boils down to a very simple concept; allow the typographer's, font houses and type foundries to access a restricted ftp site to which they can upload any font types that they want. These contributions will then be mirrored onto Freejack's Web where the whole world can peruse and download them.

This approach will solve several problems for all parties involved.

Further, with the setup of this dedicated fonts server, I can also play with a few things like mailing lists and the like that may or may not be made publically available, however, the option will still be there at least.

- Ross Wm. Rader, November 13, 1996.

Freejack's Font Archive is currently offline until such time that I can evaluate my current legal standings regarding the distribution of materials that may or may not be protected by intellectual property laws, but are not clearly marked, designated or otherwise annotated as protected materials.

Don Hosek of Quixote Digital Typography has pointed out that even though I have personally reviewed the contents of each font looking for copyright information, there still might be copyrighted/trademarked materials within the site.

For example; aachen.ttf (Aachen-Bold) - Although this font file is completely devoid of any "protective markings", it still remains that distribution of this file may pose a legal challenge for myself.

I would be interested in hearing any feedback that you may have regarding this issue, however, until such time that I can make a more informed determination regarding my legal footing, the archive is officially offline.

- Ross Wm. Rader, November 12, 1996.

Phew! It only took me three weeks, but Freejack's Fonts is now as legit as it is going to get. Every single classified font within the archive is now legit. This should really make the Typesmiths, Font Factories and the folks in comp.fonts happy ;). Additionally, all of the directories have been zipped up and placed in the archives directory. The zip archives are listed as "ffontsq.zip" for all of the fonts starting with "q", etc. The only fonts that are not up to spec, are those found in the Incoming directory; but then again, that is the nature of publically posted files, you never know what you'll get. I will be cleaning out the Incoming files periodically to ensure that intellectual property rights are protected.

Note that everything will be screwed up here for the next 24 hours as Netload creates the mirror structure from my local drive. sorry for any inconveniences.

- Ross Wm. Rader, November 7, 1996.

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