Comments on: Kottke’s Silkscreen Font on Open Font Library http://rejon.org/2007/12/kottkes-silkscreen-font-on-open-font-library/ Jon Phillips is a developer living in San Francisco and Beijing while growing open production company Fabricatorz and Aiki Framework. His notable involvements include Open Source and Free Culture movements, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Creative Commons, Status.Net, Sharism, and Qi Hardware. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jon http://rejon.org/2007/12/kottkes-silkscreen-font-on-open-font-library/comment-page-1/#comment-66010 jon Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:29:47 +0000 http://rejon.org/2007/12/15/kottkes-silkscreen-font-on-open-font-library/#comment-66010 Yeah, font copyrights are all screwy in the USA. In other jurisdictions, laws are slightly different. Yeah, font copyrights are all screwy in the USA. In other jurisdictions, laws are slightly different.

]]> By: BGFuller http://rejon.org/2007/12/kottkes-silkscreen-font-on-open-font-library/comment-page-1/#comment-65659 BGFuller Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:01:51 +0000 http://rejon.org/2007/12/15/kottkes-silkscreen-font-on-open-font-library/#comment-65659 Open Font Library is pretty interesting. I have heard a rumor that you can not actually copyright the forms of a typeface but only the name of the typeface. Even if that isn't true, I imagine you could easily take any existing typeface, slightly modify it, give it a new name, and relicense it, without running into any legal issues. Open Font Library is pretty interesting.

I have heard a rumor that you can not actually copyright the forms of a typeface but only the name of the typeface. Even if that isn’t true, I imagine you could easily take any existing typeface, slightly modify it, give it a new name, and relicense it, without running into any legal issues.

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