amitmerchant1990 / reverie

:art: A ridiculously elegant Jekyll theme.
https://reverie.pages.dev
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Historical unlicensed font causing legal liability issues for template users #95

Open timabell opened 1 week ago

timabell commented 1 week ago

Hi, I don't think there's much to be done about this now, but I want whoever created this template to know that having used it I recently got chased for payment for a proprietary font that was included in the original template. I have paid the fee to settle the matter, and hopefully that's the end of it, however I want it to be known that it's incredibly uncool, not to mention illegal, to take a font from somewhere else without a license.

I see that it was removed in f831df5428633ffe0f9a62bf31b0bcdc76e765a7 but that does nothing to stop the font licensor coming after any site that used that version of this template with the unlicensed font, as they are entitled to do.

It's bad enough that the font used unlicensed in this project. It's 100x worse that it's a template that exposed anyone who used this template to legal liability for font licensing violation.

:money_with_wings: :judge: