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

[Kyungjun Lee]

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 at 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 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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