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> Free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license Really? Can you even copyright a font? As far as I know, fonts can't be copyrighted, meaning they can be used by a

> Free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license Really? Can you even copyright a font? As far as I know, fonts can't be copyrighted, meaning they can be used by anyone without needing a licence. IANAL, but it seems like font users aren't required to comply with attribution and share-alike requirements of the CC licence.

akx 2y ago
The shapes can't be copyrighted, apparently, but the bits that make up the digitalization can. IANAL, etc.
- teddyh 2y ago
  Bitmap fonts are not covered by copyright: <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf>, <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf> It is vector fonts, which can contain copyrightable code, which can be copyrighted.
  - akx 2y ago
    So it would seem. Thanks for digging those up. With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to e.g. TrueType hinting, or OpenType shaping (or very avant-gardely, WASM shaping)? I should hope the glyph-drawing instructions don't fall under this definition of code, because that'd maybe mean SVG `path`s are copyrightable...
    - teddyh 2y ago
      > With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to What specifics you can get is all described in ML-443.