[theme-reviewers] Font license issue

[James Laws]

Yeah, it seems where at all possible that some sort of explanation, link or
something should be included ti support the claim, "Free for personal or
commercial use". Not sure really.

James

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I would say, unless someone overrules us, that generic "Free for personal
> or commercial use" license statements are acceptable for bundled fonts.
>
> My only concern regards distribution. The use-case of someone needing to
> modify a font file is enough of an edge case that someone in such a use case
> could be reasonably expected to contact the developer to inquire about
> modification.
>
> Chip
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:49 PM, James Laws <jamielaws at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.dafont.com/segan.font
>>
>> <http://www.dafont.com/segan.font>I couldn't find much on it in a cursory
>> Google search. There was this: http://www.maxfonts.com/fonts/s/segan.font to
>> contact the author. But that was about it.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> What is the font in question? Odds are, there will be a more specific
>>> license, somewhere.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, I'm not sure, because rights of modification and
>>> redistribution would not be made clear.
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, James Laws <jamielaws at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll admit, I'm not great with some GPL stuff. With all these free font
>>>> sites around what do we do with font that have no explicit license to speak
>>>> of and simply state "free for personal and corporate use". Are these ok, and
>>>> if so what's the stance on documentation of said non-existent license?
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20110502/2d43fd0a/attachment-0001.htm>