Copyright issue

[charakterziffer]

Be aware that this project is skating on thin ice. Consolas was created by the designer and professor Luc(as) de Groot who lives in Potsdam, Germany. In 2002 the font was copyrighted by Microsoft and can be bought for 49 € each cut, see also https://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/consolas/info

I understand the dilemma that it really has a public value to add coding ligatures to this beautiful font but I hope you also see that it’s not very nice to take the work of another person without asking.

Maybe Mister de Groot is open to the idea of adding coding ligatures – and because he already licensed Consolas to Microsoft he may possibly agree to republish an alternate version with ligatures under a more open license … but that’s on him. It also depends on the contract he has with Microsoft.

Until then: What about deleting all original characters from this font and only leave the ligatures intact, so it could be used together with Consolas as the fallback for ligatures? Is that technically possible? What could be another solution not to violate the copyright?

[RudiAusBuddeln]

Where's the bus?

[briangithex]

Note that Microsoft states explicitly that this usage is not allowed. Per the licensing link to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq found on on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/consolas :

I like to tinker with fonts, what if I do this in the privacy of my own home and promise not to redistribute or embed the modified or converted fonts?

For some fonts included in Windows, which Microsoft licensed from font foundries, we don’t have end-user modification or conversion rights we can pass on to you. For Microsoft owned fonts, we don’t provide these rights.