On 2/24/19, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > Ivana Soldic wrote on 2/22/19 1:20 PM: >> Hello, >> I would like to use fonts covered by your Apache Licence 2.0 in logo >> designs, not as fonts itself, but converted to curves. I have read Apache >> Licence 2.0 but I'm not sure how this applies to logo design. Logos would >> be for a commercial purpose and I plan to sell them. Can you tell me do I >> have some obligations in that case to the Apache? Please answer as simple >> as you can since English is not my first language. Feel free to ask if >> you >> have some questions. > > First off, thank you for carefully reading and respecting the license! > > The important question is: who's font is it? Many companies use our > license for their software, and it's up to the company you got the font > from to provide any legal answer to your question. You do not have any > obligations to the ASF or us, since we didn't create the font. > > We are all volunteers here on this mailing list - not paid - and we > can't give you legal advice; you'd need to ask a lawyer for specific > feedback on what your commercial company can do with these fonts. > > However, I can say that I have seen a number of other logo designers > using Apache licensed fonts as part of their logo designs. I'm not > personally aware of any legal or commercial issues that the logo > designers faced from their work. So in most cases I've seen, you don't > have anything to worry about. > > Does that help? > > -- > > - Shane > ASF Member > The Apache Software Foundation > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
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