[Nix-dev] Re: Proprietary fonts not installed by default

Michael Raskin 7c6f434c at mail.ru
Thu Jul 9 06:57:41 CEST 2009


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Tony White wrote:
> So if you follow the gnu philosophy for font inclusion, without the
> font disclaimer by the original author at the bottom of the document,
> all documents like pdfs that contain the font embedded in them (Made
> available for use because installed system wide) Are automatically
> covered by the gnu gpl. That's not ideal if you create blueprints for
> space rockets or missiles. :)

Totally OK for space rockets. You only distribute the blueprints to the
chosen few (so nobody else gets GPL rights), and source (of the
blueprints, not the entire knowledge to create them) is not much more
valuable than PDFs. It is a small market - not that you can hide the
origin of blueprints while redistributing.

Worse with SDK documentation, I would say.. If you try to make a DRM-ed
PDF, at least. But that may be a feature.
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