[Foundation-l] font and GFDL

Wed May 26 03:49:17 UTC 2004

On japanese wikipedia, some had a discussion regarding copyright of fonts. I 
thought this is something I should share with people outside of japanese 
wikipedia.

Our projects are based on web sites, so we do not offer any fonts, probably. 
But when people print out articles, or a wikibook for distribution, do they 
have to use GFDL-compatible fonts?

My limited research indicates that fonts are protected by special law, 
copyright law, or some other intellectual property law in many countries. In 
Japan, it seems that the court have said that a font set is not a copyright 
work, but a work of industrial design.

What if we offer some info. via PDF files or pngs? I know there are 
WikiReader (print) and timeline (png with text) are coming out. Any tips for 
others for others who want to do similar projects?

regards,

Tomos

_________________________________________________________________
Learn to simplify your finances and your life in Streamline Your Life from 
MSN Money. http://special.msn.com/money/0405streamline.armx