On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Fred Benenson <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure what you mean -- no fonts were used for the design of those > shirts, all were hand drawn. > > If what you mean is that the fonts for the FC logo are being used > commercially because there is a tshirt store on the site that happens > to feature the logo, I suggest you look into the laws regulating > copyright of fonts. It is distribution of the font file itself that > infringes on the copyright of the font (or as the law calls font files > "font programs") creator, not images or text using the font.
And if FC.o distributes the font, and is selling t-shirts on its site, I'd say that qualifies as commercial usage. Even though the two things are unrelated. -- Matt Lee Free Software, etc. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
