[Foundation-l] Logotype font, t-shirts, Wikimedia Sweden

[Lennart Guldbrandsson]

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 at wikimedia.org>:
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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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Lennart Guldbrandsson, presskontakt för svenskspråkiga Wikipedia