As you might have gathered from Thomas Phinney's latest comment on our post The Status of Utopia, Adobe will not re-release Utopia under an Open Font License. It doesn't mean though the font cannot be studied, copied, modified and distributed: "Although changing the license would make it easier for folks …
The status of Utopia
On October 11, 2006 Adobe granted members of the Tex User Group the right to use, modify and distribute the Utopia typeface:Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") hereby grants to the TeX Users Group and its members a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to the typeface software for the Utopia Regular, Utopia …OSP on the Radio
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Creative License: Take as much as you want
Adobe's new Creative Suite is currently advertised with the slogan: Creative License - Take as much as you want. Terms and Conditions which apply when you submit a feature request or a bug report:
You agree that by submitting your Idea, you acknowledge and agree that any such Idea is nonconfidential …
Watch this thread: do until done
Do free software developers need lawyers, when reverse engineering formats such as Corel Draw? How to work on the compatibility of file formats, when risking law suits from patent holders? Should we forget about opening up proprietary formats altogether? Jon Philips takes the position that developers should 'do until done' …
Les nouveaux habits de la copie
Les nouveaux habits de la copie, Nicolas Malevé
Text available on line: http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/nouveaux_habits.pdf
PDF lay-out: habits_quarantainec.pdf
PDF cover: cover_robot.pdf
License: Copyleft, License Art Libre
Date of publishing: 07-07-2006 (Quarantaine)Exit Save-As-PDF for Microsoft users?
Microsoft has recently announced that their 2007 release of Office will not support the "save-as-PDF"-option anymore. This might be bad news for designers' favorite file-format. PDF could become rather exotic when Microsoft users decide en masse to "Save-As-XPS" instead.
Adobe inc. owns the patents for creating and reading PDF-files …
This font is a ripoff, said the Invalidity Division
Invalidity Division, sounds like science-fiction, doesn't it? Registered community design is not bad either. Time to start a jargon file...
[...]this time the dispute is over fonts; specifically Segoe, one of the typefaces Microsoft wants to use in Vista (the new Windows, "bringing clarity to your world"). Microsoft filed its …
Don't keep it to yourself!
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All we ask is that you include this copyright notice in the material you distribute. for compiled code, you will need …The politics of typography
The open source font Gentium and The SIL Open Font License are both developed and distributed by S.I.L., also known as The Summer Institute for Linguistics, apparently a subsidiary of the Wicliffe Bible Translators. S.I.L. has developed large-scale ethno-linguistic research projects such as http://www.ethnologue …