[squeak-dev] A question concerning Comic Sans

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Feb 1 19:51:11 UTC 2014


On 01.02.2014, at 20:43, Mateusz Grotek <unoduetre at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is the Comic Sans MS font included in the current release
> candidate (13668).

No, it's not. Look at it. Definitely not a Comic font. 

It was removed a while ago, but I think the name remains in the image (aliased to a different font) so loading older projects does not fail.

> Is it legal?

Versions of the font from before 2002 allowed some forms of redistribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

But in any case, we don't ship it.

- Bert -


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