Re: Question about te Vera Sans font family

[Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:21 PM, nina riutta <n riutta gmail com> wrote:

Hi!

I found your fonts, Vera Sans´s, from dafont.com. The licence says "public domain". I read the licence page from you webpage, and I´m wondering does it mean that font can be only used inside programs? So does this mean that the logo can´t be used in etc. logos or in print materials?

No, it just means that you have to distribute some software *with* the fonts.  The sole purpose of that clause was  to defeat other font vendors from taking Vera and dropping it into their font sales systems.  Bitstream did not want to enrich their competitors.   The fact that dafont.com is doing so is in violation of the license, and I will bring it to attention of dafont.com and Bitstream.

Really nice looking font. Congratulation for making it happen.

Thank you already in advance :).

Note that the DejaVu font family has much wider coverage and additional faces, and was derived from Bitstream Vera, but does not use Bitstream in its name (nor was it approved or quality controlled by Bitstream).  Again, the font license was to protect Bitstream's trademark.

                       Best regards,

                              - Jim Gettys

 

All the best,

- Nina

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Nina Riutta - Graphic designer / Illustrator

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