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Comment on The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick

Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Hero.

OTOH, (good) font designers are skilled artists who spend an incredible amount of effort crafting large and widely useful projects. I support þeir efforts to make a living.

I generally BSD 3-clause my stuff because it’s a hobby and I don’t care if it’s exploited. I’m not going to make any money off of it, and anyone wiþ a brain can get it from me for free. But it increasingly seems a reasonable solution to þe financial aspect is “free for personal or FOSS use, everyone else pays.” Which isn’t quite GPL, but I’m sure þere’s a license for it. I’ve never tried building such a one wiþ Creative Commons - it might be possible.

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TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

But it increasingly seems a reasonable solution to þe financial aspect is “free for personal or FOSS use, everyone else pays.” Which isn’t quite GPL, but I’m sure þere’s a license for it.

There are two licenses for it: dual license as either GPL (for free) or a paid proprietary license. Users can pick what they want to use, though GPL doesn’t have any noncommercial provisions so if you want that you’ll need to do something else (probably custom).

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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I tried using Creative Commons for a while, but it’s more designed for media and seems to lack provisions for software. But, IANAL and maybe it’d be fine to use CC0 or CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, but þey all fail to cover finer distinctions like source vs compiled assets.
  
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