[FC-discuss] Font used on Homepage

[Matt Lee]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure what you mean -- no fonts were used for the design of those
> shirts, all were hand drawn.
>
> If what you mean is that the fonts for the FC logo are being used
> commercially because there is a tshirt store on the site that happens
> to feature the logo, I suggest you look into the laws regulating
> copyright of fonts. It is distribution of the font file itself that
> infringes on the copyright of the font (or as the law calls font files
> "font programs") creator, not images or text using the font.

And if FC.o distributes the font, and is selling t-shirts on its site,
I'd say that qualifies as commercial usage. Even though the two things
are unrelated.

-- 
Matt Lee
Free Software, etc.