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Free (GPL like), legal font license required
I want to publish a typeface I'm working on (which I hope will form part of a small family) and need to include a license. I've been trying to find an appropriate free license, along the lines of the GPL/copyleft which might cover any nasties/abuses happening later.
I'm aware that there are issues with GPL licenses in fonts. (See here: http://www.typophile.com/node/31738) So it needn't be a GPL license. I just can't find an appropriate, simple license text specific to font distribution.
Essentially it needs to cover my free distribution, future free distribution (license intact) and my copyright.
Anyone with a similar license they use?
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23 Jan 2008 — 8:02am
There's the Freetype license and the SIL Open Font license.
26 Mar 2009 — 1:09am
* The FreeType license was designed as a license for the FreeType rendering engine (a software library) not as a license for fonts.
* Recently Bruce Perens in his blog article Warning: SIL Open Font License has expressed some concern about SIL's Open Font License claiming: "There appears to be an unintended loophole that would allow the conversion of any font under the license to public domain."
* There is a "Font Exception" which can be tagged onto the end of the GPL to make it suitable for fonts ~ however the author of that subsequently wrote an article on Font Licensing and the GPL in which he expressed some reservations.
- Chris
27 Mar 2009 — 7:58am
Good Luck. I have been looking for the same thing with no success.
http://www.typophile.com/node/55841
I'll be watching to see what you come up with.
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