Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: > This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, > though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their > Swing font. > I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is > redrawn manually since in the end everyone familiar with the Sigler fonts > will recognize it as such or some might even say: "Hey look, they're using > the same jazz font as Finale/Sibelius."
No, the look of a font isn’t copyrighted, but the name is sometimes a trademark - that’s why a lot of lookalikes exist whose names point to the original, like "Zurich" or "Swiss" for "Helvetica". Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
