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Font license #16

Open whitis opened 1 year ago

whitis commented 1 year ago

MIT license but some or all fonts you say to use have a license (GPL) that is extremely incompatible with permissively licensed software.
There is an exception for embedding in a document but not for use in an application.

strings d050000l.pfb | head -10 %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Dingbats 001.005 %%CreationDate: Tue Oct 19 1999 % Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1997 by URW % URW Software, Copyright 1997 by URW % See the file COPYING (GNU General Public License) for license conditions. % As a special exception, permission is granted to include this font % program in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that % contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless % of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. 12 dict begin

The 14 Adobe fonts are free to embed but not to use in software as well.

There are likely metric compatible fonts which have a legitimate license.

s3bk commented 1 year ago

If you can find a set of compatible fonts, please build and share it. I could not find one, hence they are not included.