Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

[Abraham Lee]

Andrew,

On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

What I am concerned about is how would a lawyer or the owner know if you were using the open source font or the commercial one? There is no way to tell the difference from a published score as far as I would know.  There are now many concerns. Hopefully the developed will clarify for us soon.

These are valid concerns. I can assure you that the newly commercial ones will have certain font metadata that are unique to the transition. There are other things that will tell the difference, too. There won't be nearly as many glyphs as in the earlier files because I had to completely separate them from Emmentaler in order to put them under the new license at all. There's also the OS's creation date that's embedded in each file. Pretty much anything with a creation date prior to January 1, 2016 is in the "open-source" category. I'm not really concerned what anyone might do with them because they are subject to their own licenses and I know what's legally allowed and what's not.

The point to all this is to let you know there are lots of ways a lawyer could find out the needed info, so you'll be covered.

Hopefully that can bring you some peace of mind over the situation. If not, please don't hesitate to ask more questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

Best,

Abraham