Topic: Legality of using free fonts?
Started by: ecliptic
Started on: 4/29/2004
Board: Publishing
On 4/29/2004 at 7:14am, ecliptic wrote:
Legality of using free fonts?
I was wonder what is the legality in using freeware fonts in a product that you sell?
On 4/29/2004 at 8:27am, Jack Aidley wrote:
RE: Legality of using free fonts?
Depends entirely on the font. You would need to check with the maker of the font.
On 4/29/2004 at 9:35am, jdagna wrote:
RE: Legality of using free fonts?
It also depends on the nature of the product, whether it's in print or in PDF (and within the PDF category, some licenses allow you to use it as long as you don't embed it in the PDF). All free fonts come with a license that will spell this out.
On 4/29/2004 at 1:12pm, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
RE: Legality of using free fonts?
You should also take care to verify that you're using an honest-to-goodness free font, and not a ripoff clone font whose outlines have been copypasted from a font you would have to pay for.
I don't know an easy way to do this, unfortunately, but it's just the nice thing to do - think about the typographers.