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I’m sorry but I don’t follow you. Isn’t it stupid easy to get plenty of high quality fonts licensed for free at somewhere like Google fonts. If you need somethi
by throwthere 5y ago
I’m sorry but I don’t follow you. Isn’t it stupid easy to get plenty of high quality fonts licensed for free at somewhere like Google fonts. If you need something else specific shouldn’t the creators be entitled to license their work? Why should you be entitled to their works?
- __MatrixMan__ 5y agoI have no interest in using proprietary fonts. What I'm saying is that if I'm working on a project that includes a font somewhere and somebody points at some text and says "what is that font and are you allowed to use it?" I have to dig through the code and find the font and research its licensing whether or not it's proprietary. So long as the expectation is that we all must be able to prove that we're allowed to use the fonts that we're using, a proprietary font anywhere is a drag on productivity everywhere.
- throwthere 5y agoAgain I'm sorry but how often does that happen and how long does it take to verify your licenses? It just seems like a small price to pay for using someone else's work.
- __MatrixMan__ 5y agoI don't know how common it is, but in my case it was built into a binary, and it took us all day to take apart the build and figure out that yes-we were fine.
- Talanes 5y ago>It just seems like a small price to pay for using someone else's work. Their example would still hold true if they were using a font they developed themselves, except instead of having to record the license information they would have to produce a license.