Updates, updates, licenses. Nutbunnies!

In a blaze of insane reasoning we now see that using or embedding GPL'd fonts with/in documents can/might/will make that document GPL'd as well.

http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-April/010319.html discusses some of the finer points with regard to this issue.

On the FSF site we can find a mention of how fonts apparently are a difficult thing with the GPL.

Personally I am getting sick of licenses to the marrow of my bone.

A typical font license is quite similar to what Adobe says on their "What about fonts?" page.

To quote:

"You may embed typefaces into documents only under certain circumstances.
Adobe permits embedding certain typefaces into documents for the explicit
purpose of viewing and printing only."

An interesting article on the issue Font Licensing and Protection Details.

On the art side I totally fell in love with Ryan Church's work especially after seeing some of his concept artwork as laid out in my copy of The Making of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith.