On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote: > Beware of "free download" fonts.
Dafont.com is a good source for truly free fonts. Some are marked "Personal Use Only", however this is almost unenforceable*. The whole area of typeface licensing is murky as hell. For example, I have a fully-licensed copy of "Akzidenz-Grotesk Pro" - but that is a typeface originally designed in the 1890s and in no sane society should require any sort of license! And then there are all the knock-offs: due to a quirk in the laws* concerning typefaces, one can extract the glyphs, create a new font with those glyphs, and then distribute it. The 'README' in the font's zip file may or may not be truth. In short: tracking the legality of a specific typeface is hellish at best, and sometimes near-impossible. I try to spend my time designing these days, and not worrying about font licenses. Out of necessity, I have several large commercial libraries - but I try to use free fonts whenever possible. I also use free (open source) software whenever possible - but again, out of necessity, I also use Adobe's products as well (those are licensed too, in case any of the jack-boots of the BSA are reading). The BSA only needs an excuse - if they raid you, they WILL find a violation. So kids: encrypt your hard drives and keep your heads down ;) Chris *IANAL, this is not legal advice ;) PS - the BSA is the most compelling argument I've ever seen for running an all-linux shop ;) Ask Ernie Ball about them sometime... _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
