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What happens if someone gives away a font for free and after 6 years starts asking for money?
- nothing?uan
- outcome depends on what license terms he gave it for free...and if he didn't cover any future changes in it...nothing can happen I guess.uan
- and if he wants to fight or something...just use another font, problem solved...or you appreciate the work and pay some money to keep using it.uan
- like good karma shit. maybe he needs the money now and realized the font is wildly useful to some ppl. and wants some recognition in $$ for it...uan
- it was free for all use in 2010 now he changed the terms :) it's part of a logo for a large-ish dev company and he wants to get paid per appearance lol.sted
- if the logo was done 2010, you should be fine. but get a lawyer to fight this. it probably depends on the country he sues, but normally you can't change terms..uan
- Part of a logo? Make very slight changes to it.i_monk
- ....retrospectively.uan
- also...change the logo, and get paid for a subtle redesign ;-) but don't tell him and roll out the redesign in small quiet steps.uan
- Most "free" fonts are licensed for personal use only. Need to pay for commercialGnash
- impressed that he found it being usedGnash
- Simple.
Reply back in 6 years.stoplying - laughsince1979
- stuff was made in 2010 the font was clearly free (free of charge donationware), made a few modifications but it's still recognizable an it was in house projectsted
- don't get this guy, keeps arguing. my lawyer is an ip law specialist and he said first that shouldn't care about this, but i don't want to fuck him oversted
- just pay some fuck off money, but he wants more lolsted
- how much?dbloc
- 5k+solatium i asked for a formula to calculate his request, still waiting for an answersted
- ^ ouch.Gnash
- http://meta.myfonts.…Gnash
- http://imjustcreativ…Gnash
- http://www.typograph…Gnash
- ^ the last link. if the logo provided to you client was without the software then sounds like they don't need the license.Gnash
- i believe the most he can ask for is what the current cost of the font.Gnash
- and even if you're client used the font software, they would just need to buy a comm license as wellGnash
- (ignore horrible typing)Gnash