[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Ven 7 juin 2013 20:16, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :

> The OFL explicitely states that, when bundled with a software (which in
> practical terms means the font will be embedded in the software
> installer), OFL provisions still apply to the fonts (including keeping
> legal notices)

And now that Mozilla and others are declaring future mobile applications
will just be webapps, trying to separate embedding in a document,
referencing in a web page, and bundled with software in different cases,
is totally hopeless. Not that the OFL itself tried to. That the FAQ tried
to is unfortunate. The only sane separation is font bits (embedded,
modified, converted, bundled, rot13ed, or not) and the rest. Font is
whatever derivative part of the original work can be used to render a
single glyph, regardless of intent.

The only case where font use is not some form of redistribution is when
the font itself is already present on the target system and you are using
this system copy.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot