Oh, what a great story for the open font library planet. Jon
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalin...@sil.org> wrote: > Chris Lilley wrote: >> Hello, >> >> An object lesson in being sure that fonts are used within the terms >> of their license. The design agency for Hadopi, the French agency >> overseeing the controversial 'three strikes' law that removes >> Internet access from households after three illegal download >> warnings, itself used a copy of an exclusive corporate typeface >> design made for France Telecom, stolen copies of which have appeared >> on warez sites. (The other font used was also unlicensed, but is at >> least *available* for licensing, and a copy was purchased some two >> months after the logo went into use). >> >> http://fontfeed.com/archives/french-anti-piracy-organisation-uses-pirated-font-in-ownlogo/ > > > Hi Chris, > > Oh the delicious irony... > > I also really hope the buzz around this will result in more people > becoming aware of the need to always respect the upstream designer's > license whatever it may be: libre/open or more restricted as an > exclusivity for a particular entity. Never assume but make an effort to > look at the metadata. > > More details on the font family itself: > http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/Bienvenue/?lang=en > and the upstream designers: > http://www.typofonderie.com/profile > > BTW, glad to see that the W3C discussions around fonts have led to a > recognition of the need for metadata: DRE instead of DRM. > > Cheers, > > -- > Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer > Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary > http://planet.open-fonts.org > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ internet: @rejon + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from Wellington, Wgn, New Zealand