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by anoncake 2762 days ago
Nimbus Sans is not a lookalike for Helvetica, it is a Helvetica. The visual appearance of fonts is not copyrightable. And it's GPL'd.
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Mirioron 2762 days ago
What does it mean for a font to be GPL? Does it carry the license along into any project you use that font in?
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mark-r 2762 days ago
The GPL version was produced to be included with Ghostscript, which itself is GPL, so that wasn't an issue. I'd be very wary of using it with any other project.
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anoncake 2762 days ago
That sounds like FUD.
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