On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:06:12 +0100 > Christian Neukirchen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [email protected] (mpu) writes: >> >> > Ben Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What licenses are the tools and the font? There doesn't >> >> seem to be a copyright statement or license anywhere. >> >> Maybe >> >>I am missing something obvious... >> > >> > The license and the font are now public domain, maybe >> > I'll put a BSD license on the font some day, when I >> > judge the quality makes it worth it. >> >> In the US and in Germany, pixel fonts can not be >> copyrighted and are thus public domain. >> > > WTF‽ That is the stupidest thing ever. They are equally > difficult and time consuming to make.
However, the font name is copyrightable which is often way you see similar looking fonts (possibly copied) with a derivative name.
