I think we need to make a distinction between font software and the font character on the page.
The character on the page(or screen) is a product of the font software, and is not software in itself, and is no more a derivitive work than a Scribus document is a derivitive work of the Scribus software. Even if a font is embedded in a PDF it is still simply part of the software responsible for rendering a document. Surely the GPL would apply to the font software itself not the font character as it appears on a page. If you created a new font (as in the software) from the GPL font, then that new font would be subject to the GPL. If you do consider a document using a GPL font is a derivitive work of that font then I believe you would have to look at all documents produced by Scribus or any other GPLed word/text processor, or any image produced with Gimp or Inkscape etc being a derivitive work. Wouldn't you? Peter
