A redesigned website at openfontlicense.org is launched. There is no change to the license itself, only improved documentation and guidance. It replaces the now retired website at scripts.sil.org/OFL.

The Google Fonts service has now published over 1500 font families, the vast majority commissioned and released under the OFL.

Q&A Session: Contributing to the Commons: What, Why, and How? ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) Q&A session moderated by Dave Crossland.

Poster about open fonts produced by SIL International under the OFL is presented at the LT4all (Language Technologies for all) conference at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in Paris, France. This conference took place as part of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL). Later 2022-2032 was proclaimed the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL) by the United Nations and its partners.

The large-scope Noto font collection designed to cover all of Unicode is re-released and re-licensed under the OFL, having originally been released under the Apache license.

Open and collaborative font design in a webfonts world, ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) panel moderated by Victor Gaultney.

OFL-FAQ draft with coverage of new questions and a separate paper on Web Fonts and Reserved Font Names becomes available for review and comments before being published.

The OFL is presented at WSIS+10 (World Summit on the Information Society) at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), in Paris, France as a follow-up from previous WSIS events in Geneva and Tunis.

Google sets up a webfont service - Google Fonts - with a growing catalog of open fonts, the vast majority under the OFL. Other more commercially-oriented efforts follow, such as Adobe Fonts (formerly Adobe TypeKit), that include a selection of open fonts under the OFL.

The goals of the OFL and its methodology are presented and discussed at major industry conferences: ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), Unicode Conference. Open-font-related presentations along with BoFs (Birds of a Feather meetings) take place at many free and open software events to discuss what would be needed to improve the general font landscape and gather feedback: TUG (TeX User Group) meetings, LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting), Ubuntu Summit, Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, GUADEC, FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting), DebConf (Debian Conference), TextLayoutSummit. Useful discussions allow for the establishing of a solid licensing model especially designed for fonts.

The WOFF standard (Web Open Font Format) by Jonathan Kew (Mozilla), Tal Leming (Type Supply) and Erik van Blokland (LettError) opens the door for better support of @font-face across browsers. Fonts under the OFL are used for research, technology demos as well as implementation examples in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) documentation.

The OFL is recognized as compliant with the OSD (Open Source Definition) by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) and placed on their list of approved licenses.

Dave Crossland publishes his MA dissertation on the Free (Libre/Open) Font Movement as part of his MATD (Master of Arts in Typeface Design) at the University of Reading. He also releases Cantarell first under the GPL, then under the OFL - a contemporary Humanist sans serif, used by the GNOME project for its user interface.

Unicode on the Front Lines: Endangered Languages and Unicode presented by Lorna Priest Evans, SIL Script Technologist and SIL Unicode representative at IUC31 (Internationalization and Unicode Conference), covering the OFL among other topics.

A refined version of the OFL - version 1.1 - is released with improvements and clarifications, but retains the general working model of the license. The OFL-FAQ is also expanded and updated.

Another round of reviews and minor refinements towards version 1.1.

The Go for OFL campaign is launched with official support from key organizations in the FLOSS community: Unifont.org, FreeDesktop.org, the GNOME foundation, KDE, the Linux Foundation, the Free Software Foundation. It encourages designers, foundries and supporting institutions to consider choosing the OFL for their font projects. The campaign is presented and launched at the TextLayout Summit as part of Gnome Live! 2006 at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab in Boston, USA. This results in various new releases across the community.

The very first LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting) 2006 (LGM) is held in Lyon, France, with a lightning talk about the OFL and key discussions with community members.

A minor revision of the OFL enters the review phase.

Gentium, the first font ever released under the OFL, is accepted into Debian main, the repository containing only free/libre/open source software, which shows compliance with the DFSG (the Debian Free Software Guidelines).

SIL starts releasing various font projects under the OFL.

The OFL is recognized as a free software license by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and placed on their list of approved licenses.

The first version of the OFL (version 1.0) is released along with its FAQ. See below for historical information about OFL 1.0.

The draft OFL receives wide review by the public, including relevant experts in the legal, font, and free software and open source communities.

The OFL is discussed and refined at the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) in Tunis, a follow-up from a previous event in Geneva in December 2003.

The OFL is discussed and refined at the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) TypeTech Forum 2005 in Helsinki, Finland, with a presentation by Victor Gaultney.

Research and analysis is carried out by Victor Gaultney and Nicolas Spalinger while working on various other projects. Some initial research was done as part of UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Initiative B@bel.