[OpenFontLibrary] Font embedding exceptions

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Wed Dec 31 03:37:51 PST 2008


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/30 Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:47 PM,  <Fontfreedom at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if
>>> the output, given its
>>> content, constitutes a covered work."
>>
>> Since you are embedding a font, which is itself a covered work,
>> unmodified into the document, an exception is required. The end.
>
> +1

A theoretical dissenting view:

The document is not software and is not a derivative of the font.
Including the font with the document, which can be used without it, is
mere aggregation.

- Rob.


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