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GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Unknown fonts licence

Hallo everyone.

I want to make an AUR package out of a set of really beautiful Greek extended fonts I use, but I can't find anything about their licence on the website. All it says (I translate in English) is “completely free for the first time in Greek internet!”

Is there a generic “free” licence we use in such cases or should I contact the creator? I guess if he thought to make a licence he would had posted it on the site already, but of course I could be wrong.

The fonts' website is this, you can pass it through google translate or something similar.

Thanks.

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Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, x86_64. AURs.

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thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Unknown fonts licence

I did not quickly find a license.  They are copyrighted:

$ strings Skbapuw_.ttf | grep -i -A 2 copy
Copyright 
 2003 Spiros Krontiris.  Politonal fonts for Word with operate system Windos 2000 and Windows XP. e-mail: <deleted by thisoldman>
rSKBaskervillPolUni_W

I hope that can help you search for the author or license.  The Cyrillic alphabet is a barrier to my search skills.

GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: Unknown fonts licence

Thanks for the answer.

Yes, Krontiris is the fonts' creator. But being copyrighted means… that we can't distribute them? Or that I should ask him for the proper licence? Those legal things confuse me!

Greek alphabet, by the way, not Cyrillic.

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Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, x86_64. AURs.

“No one without the knowledge of geometry may enter.“ Plato.

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Unknown fonts licence

Copyright means Krontiris owns them.  An owner gives or sells a license for others to use them.  So, yes, you have to ask for the license before you distribute them. 

Most of the references I found, searching with ' "Spiros Krontiris" fonts' were from Russian web-sites.  I actually did mean Cyrillic was hampering my search but wasn't clear enough with what I wrote.  My mistake. 

You may have better search results using "Σπύρου Κροντήρη" than I do.

GordonGR

Member

From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: Unknown fonts licence

Lol, I apologise then. Thank you very much for your clarifications. I will contact the man and ask him.

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Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, x86_64. AURs.

“No one without the knowledge of geometry may enter.“ Plato.