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Fonts lisence?

Open Artem13327 opened this issue 1 year ago • 9 comments

As I see your application contains custom fonts, so I have a question about the licenses of this fonts.

Artem13327 avatar Aug 17 '24 17:08 Artem13327

Hello, it's a font called Nunito, avaible for free here : https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito

sosauce avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 sosauce

@sosauce I'm not a lawyer, but it seems you are violating the license of this font.

Artem13327 avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 Artem13327

Why ? It is stated on Google Fonts :

You can use them in your products & projects – print or digital, commercial or otherwise.

sosauce avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 sosauce

It is stated on Google Fonts

Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Why ?

I’ll say it again, I’m not a lawyer and I could have misunderstood the license.

As I see this font is licensed under the Open Font License. And there is this license in the font repository (https://github.com/googlefonts/nunito/blob/main/OFL.txt) and presumably you violated paragraph 2.

Artem13327 avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 Artem13327

mhmmm, I'll add a text file then

sosauce avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 sosauce

And almost at the end of the license there is an interesting clause, but I don’t know exactly how to interpret it, I hope you have read the license

Artem13327 avatar Aug 17 '24 19:08 Artem13327

There is also a second font in CuteCalc, what about that?

Artem13327 avatar Aug 17 '24 19:08 Artem13327

  1. Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

You simply need to download this license file, put in in your repository, and mention in the README that you're using Nunito under the SIL, under free personal non-commercial use.

notKamui avatar Aug 22 '24 00:08 notKamui

https://openfontlicense.org/how-to-use-ofl-fonts/

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See, technically, because you have the font files in your repo, you are technically redistributing the fonts. This is perfectly allowed, but you do need to also have the SIL OFL license file somewhere in your repo

notKamui avatar Aug 22 '24 00:08 notKamui

Re-open if needed

sosauce avatar Sep 09 '24 20:09 sosauce

I think you have seen in some programs such a thing as "Open source software licenses", maybe you can do something similar?

Artem13327 avatar Sep 10 '24 13:09 Artem13327

Okay 👍

sosauce avatar Sep 10 '24 16:09 sosauce