[FC-discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9

[Rob Myers]

On 14/01/10 19:22, Brian Rowe wrote:
> Licensing fonts is also a very interesting issue.  Are fonts a form of
> typeface outside of copyrights control or are the copyrightable? Is the
> license a contract not back by copyright? I think that Adobe and I might
> disagree on this issue.
>   
Adobe are licencing you copyrighted software, so the disagreement would
have to be about the ethics of that rather than about the legality of
it. ;-)

> But either way I would rather use something clearly marked libre or make a
> stand on font freedom over getting special permission for just the org.
>   

Yes. See here for lots of good Free fonts -

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
http://openfontlibrary.org/

- Rob.