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Museo font is not-free #59

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umlaeute opened this issue Jan 8, 2023 · 1 comment
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Museo font is not-free #59

umlaeute opened this issue Jan 8, 2023 · 1 comment

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@umlaeute
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umlaeute commented Jan 8, 2023

thanks for giving us IanniX under the GPL-3.

Unfortunately, it seems that the font that is used throughout, Museo Sans 500 is not free

To quote from the exljbris' "free font license":

  • This font is free for personal and commercial use
  • The font file/software may be modified to suit design of system requirements, but strictly for your own (personal or commercial) use. You may not sell or distribute it.
  • Embedding (in PDF's, Flash files and programs) is allowed
  • You may use this font for Font-Face embedding, but only if you put a link to www.exljbris.nl on your page and/or put this notice /* A font by Jos Buivenga (exljbris) -> www.exljbris.com */ in your CSS file as near as possible to the piece of code that declares the Font-Face embedding of this font.
  • This font may not be distributed or sold -not online nor on any media- without my permission
  • This font is and remains (even when modified) the intellectual property of Jos Buivenga
  • exljbris Font Foundry is not liable for any damage resulting from the use of this font

i'm not a 100% sure whether the "free font license" applies (as i couldn't find a download link for the font from their homepage, which is a condition for the "free font license"), but I am assuming that it does, as upstream explicitly says that "2 fonts are absolutely free (500/500 italic)".

While the license is pretty permissive, the 2nd paragraph explicitly forbids distributing it.
Which makes IanniX undistributable as long as it includes the Museo font.

Please replace the font with a free alternative.

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Hi!
As a first action, I've removed the font (if the Museo.ttf file is not present, IanniX will try to find Museo in the system fonts and if absent, will take the default sans serif system font).
If we upgrade IanniX one day, I'll be careful about that.
Thanks for the clear issue.

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