On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Alex Maier wrote:
Fonts--whether protected by copyright or not--are open source by
nature, as everyone can see how they are made and make their own with
suitable tools.
Try duplicating some big design agency's font exactly and passing it off
as your own, and see how true that statement actually is. :)
Taking a copyright-protected font for the artwork will not conflict
the open source values of Fedora.
I don't think it's quite that simple.
That said, can someone point to a good, definitive repository of "open
source fonts"? It might be nice to see what the open options are, anyway.
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