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

[Parker Higgins]

FWIW, I think that's a great idea. Incidentally, as I recall it, p22
Typewriter used to be freely distributed by its makers, until a certain
point when they cut it off. I didn't know of a special contract we had with
them to use it, but I know that there are a lot of dead links on the
internet pointing to where you used to be able to download it for free.

(other) Parker

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Parker <gameguy43 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If someone can grab a font that's at least somewhat similar and re-do the
> banner image in that font, and if a few other people on this list agree,
> i'll gladly update the wiki and blog themes to use it.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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