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. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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