Hoi,
Given that the Wikimedia Foundation has so many people advocating a Free
Culture, I would say that retaining a font that has such onerous
restrictions for our own logo is really a bit much. There are good quality
fonts available and, when these do not exist, I would even favour us to
partner with organisations that provide Free licenses like SIL and make
fonts available so that our content can be experienced in the way it is
intended, free and unencumbered.
I expect that all those who are against the use of Flash, will be in favour
of us not using fonts that make our content opaque in the same way that
Flash does.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7/26/07, Kyungjun Lee <kjoonlee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm not sure about the conditions of use set forth to Macintosh
users, but the version available for purchase doesn't allow that
either.
"You agree not to make, or authorize or commission others to make, any
additions, deletions or modifications to, or derivative works based
on, the Typefaces without the prior written consent of H&FJ."
--Kjoonlee
On 7/20/07, Lennart Guldbrandsson <wikihannibal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Would that mean that anyone who could make a font
identical to the
"official" font could save it under the CC licence and make it readily
available for all Wikipedias who wanted to use it?
/Hannibal
2007/7/20, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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> Alison Wheeler wrote:
> > If we end up 'correcting' the glyphs in the globe could we please
use a
> > free-as-in-beer font for the colophon
and text too? There are open
> source
> > fonts and to use this particular font is restrictive and way too
> expensive
> > to be reasonable for projects such as ours.
>
> My understanding of font/typeface copyright issues, and this may be
> totally wrong, is that the font _file_ is copyrighted so you can't
send
> the font _file_ to someone else, but that
the shapes of the letters
are
not, so
there's no limitation on what you've written out using it.
Of course it's still mildly annoying. :)
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