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Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Fri Nov 14 14:08:26 UTC 2008


Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> Duvelle Jones wrote:
>> You know, I am not too sure about the reasoning to that decision. But
>> that is something that should be up for discussion, there may or may not
>> be legal repercussion for the use of a non-open typeface. (and I am no
>> legal expert, so I am not sure to what those repercussion might be.)
> 
> There isn't. Fonts as a piece of software can have IP attached to them; 
> letterforms are not copyrightable AFAIK. So I do not believe there is 
> legal risk here.

IANAL, but I saw this source used as a reference when talking about this 
issue: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis

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