Quantcast
Channel: TypeDrawers
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4192

Is porting fonts to iOS Legal or Illegal?

$
0
0
It's something that people have been doing for years, I think since the iPhone came out in 2007, and the guys over at BytaFont (http://forum.bytafont.com/ ) are most active in doing this today, but I was wondering if its considered legal or illegal? They change the system fonts of iOS which are either Helvetica or the new San Francisco and then distribute the modified fonts on Cydia/the Internet. They claim they would not port fonts that are not freeware or redistributable yet neither is Helvetica nor San Francisco (the fonts they are porting TO) and those are the fonts that are in fact being modified and then redistributed. Yet no one has complained about this ever since it begun. So it seems like it IS legal but to me it somehow doesn't...

Can anyone here help me clear this up?
Thanks

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4192