EULAs from hell: typography
Posted by Jorge Bernal July 11, 2007
Do you think proprietary licenses suck? Try reading a typeface’s EULA. From typotheque:
4. You are permitted to make a single back-up copy. The Typotheque Font Software or documentation may not be sublicensed, sold, leased, rented, lent, or given away to another person or entity.
So it seems if you buy a typeface the author wants to have a saying in your backup policy. I’m also wondering why a typeface should be licensed by CPU
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In the non-free world licensing typefaces by CPU makes as much sense as licensing software by CPU.
Yeah, it makes no sense too, but still, for instance databases can be more easily related to CPUs than fonts
Licensing by workstation or by user might be understandable, but licensing by CPU is quite weird (for both software & fonts).
Maybe they call CPU to the computer “box”
Thankfully, there’s a better way.