Kind people familiar with the matter, please help me clarify the exact legal 
status of the Gregorio typeface's design. The about page at the Gregorio 
project site, http://home.gna.org/gregorio/gregorio-history says:

> From the outset the goal of the project has been to create a graphical 
> interface for the monks of the Abbey of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux so that 
> they could use a gregorian font. This font, Gregoria, is a professional and 
> commercially available OpenType font designed by Elena Albertoni, a 
> typographer and graphic designer. Finally, due to licence issues, it was 
> decided that the project will have its own font called gregorio.

Gregorio the font seems to be a rather straightforward adaptation of the 
original Gregoria design. Different implementation gives a clear legal status 
for the Gregorio font software, I suppose, but isn't a particular type design, 
as opposed to font software, also under copyright in France? Was this an issue? 
How it was dealt with? Moreover, can any further software derivatives of 
Gregorio's design, and for that matter the design of Gregoria itself, be made 
without any copyright infringement?

Thank you all. Regards,
Grzegorz Rolek
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