Re: "LilyPond look" - Musegraph font?

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 20.10.2013 10:14, schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 2013/10/20 SoundsFromSound <address@hidden>:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I stumbled upon this website recently and just noticed they have this font
>>>> offered for sale, dubbed "Lilypond look is here!"
>>>>
>>>> Do any of you know anything about this vendor and/or fonts?  I'm
>>>> curious...anyone try these fonts before?
>>>>
>>>> Paris...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.musegraph.com/2011/04/19/paris-font/
>>> I haven't heard about them.  The font indeed appears to be LilyPond's
>>> (except for the flags), albeit an older version (without my changes to
>>> clef and breve design).
>>>
>>> But i don't see the source code of our font available for download.
>>> It seems to me that they are violating our license.
>> That very much depends on whether they have been using the font source
>> itself, or rather mimicked the outlines.
>>
>> We currently offer the LilyPond fonts also under SIL license, but it
>> sounds like they are using a version from GPL-only times.
>
> But SIL wouldn't allow to sell them as a standalone project either,
> isn't it?

No idea, I'm just familiar with the GPL.  At any rate, they say
"Lilypond look is here", but that does not in itself imply that they
copied or converted the font programs.  IIRC, the legal situation is
such that retracing fonts in the U.S.A. is not relevant to copyright but
only to trademark and other design-related rights.

But this is all just speculation in the dark.  One would need to
actually check the fonts in order to figure out whether they are
programmatically derived or via retracing or actually are just
hand-modeled after our fonts, and to see what the total package entails.

-- 
David Kastrup