Interesting news! Somebody is doing a survey on font licensing for their
thesis here. Let's tell him about free software! Here's the text I used:
"Font licensing is a very simple issue. As fonts are software, all fonts need
to be free software, or they are controlling their users. That is unethical.
"By 'free software', I am not referring to price, but the free software
described at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. You must have the
freedom to use fonts for any purpose, to modify them, and to copy and
redistribute them for any price even with modifications.
"I currently use the free and open-source GNU/Linux operating system, and use
only free and open-source fonts."