Hi, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apache has well-defined descriptions of what licenses open-sourced > software can have to be redistributed. But does anyone know whether > this applies to fonts that get embedded in a PDF when the PDF is > generated? As I understand it, unless the font itself is marked > "redistributable" in code, it will not be embedded in the PDF, so > there should be no actual legal issues. But what does Apache say > about requiring the sources to those fonts to be distributed along > with the PDF that was generated from it, and getting the font license > approved? I'd hope there was some kind of exception for this case > since otherwise it would be near impossible to distribute PDFs.
What's the specific case you're thinking about? A specific PDF you want to include in a ManifoldCF release? Discussing licensing in abstract is often pretty difficult. BR, Jukka Zitting
