[Foundation-l] Logotype font, t-shirts, Wikimedia Sweden

Thu Jul 26 20:33:30 UTC 2007

Hoi,
Given that the Wikimedia Foundation has so many people advocating a Free
Culture, I would say that retaining a font that has such onerous
restrictions for our own logo is really a bit much. There are good quality
fonts available and, when these do not exist, I would even favour us to
partner with organisations that provide Free licenses like SIL and make
fonts available so that our content can be experienced in the way it is
intended, free and unencumbered.

I expect that all those who are against the use of Flash, will be in favour
of us not using fonts that make our content opaque in the same way that
Flash does.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/26/07, Kyungjun Lee <kjoonlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm not sure about the conditions of use set forth to Macintosh
> users, but the version available for purchase doesn't allow that
> either.
>
> "You agree not to make, or authorize or commission others to make, any
> additions, deletions or modifications to, or derivative works based
> on, the Typefaces without the prior written consent of H&FJ."
>
> --Kjoonlee
>
> On 7/20/07, Lennart Guldbrandsson <wikihannibal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would that mean that anyone who could make a font identical to the
> > "official" font could save it under the CC licence and make it readily
> > available for all Wikipedias who wanted to use it?
> >
> > /Hannibal
> >
> >
> > 2007/7/20, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>:
> > >
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> > > Alison Wheeler wrote:
> > > > If we end up 'correcting' the glyphs in the globe could we please
> use a
> > > > free-as-in-beer font for the colophon and text too? There are open
> > > source
> > > > fonts and to use this particular font is restrictive and way too
> > > expensive
> > > > to be reasonable for projects such as ours.
> > >
> > > My understanding of font/typeface copyright issues, and this may be
> > > totally wrong, is that the font _file_ is copyrighted so you can't
> send
> > > the font _file_ to someone else, but that the shapes of the letters
> are
> > > not, so there's no limitation on what you've written out using it.
> > >
> > > Of course it's still mildly annoying. :)
> > >
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