Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:55 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: >> Grant Goodyear wrote: >>> Curtis Napier wrote: [Tue May 09 2006, 09:49:27PM CDT] >>>> Larry our wonderful mascot is from a font collection that we DO NOT OWN >>>> THE COPYRIGHT TOO. Our esteemed ex-architect STOLE Larry. Legally >>>> speaking we have no rights to use Larry whatsoever and if the owner of >>>> the copyright ever stumbles onto gentoo.org and sees it we are looking >>>> at a big fat lawsuit. >>> Both Jon and I (separately) addressed this earlier, but I'm pretty sure >>> that although we don't own the copyright to Larry, the font it is from >>> has a license that allows us to use it freely. If you have evidence to >>> the contrary, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do to obtain >>> any necessary rights. >>> >>> -g2boojum- >> I don't see a license for it anywhere. If we have a copy it would >> probably be best to have it somewhere easily accessible. Putting it in >> the images directory on the website makes sense. > > I have a copy of the font. > > It is ©2000 Ethan Dunham ‐ Fonthead Design ‐ http://www.fonthead.com
Larry is the letter 's' in FontHeads which has been released as freeware. http://fonthead.com/freeware.php is very explicit about allowed usage: "Use them in your personal and commercial projects, websites, logos or whatever else you are designing." Regards, -- / Xavier Neys \_ Gentoo Documentation Project / /\ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/
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