Lincense question for commercial app

[Daniel Kuster]

"But this doesn't matter when you are just executing it in the
normal way."
Does that mean that also GPL licensed programs (like pdftex according to
CTAN) can be used (i.e. only execute the precompiled binary) in a
commercial, closed source-app? Of course with a statement like "this app
uses GPL software, you can download it here ..."?

The idea with the "download the fonts on your machine yourself" seems good
and I'll think about that further, or just leave those fonts out.

Thank you guys so much for your help. I really appreciate your effort.
That's something remarkable - helping a stranger on the Internet.

Sincerely,
Daniel

On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 00:24, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On 2023-01-21 at 20:32:12 +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>  > All fonts from the TL should be free but there may be problem with
>  > fonts installed by getnonfreefonts. I have not studied their
>  > licenses and do not even install them to be sure that I do not
>  > break hte license by mistake.
>
> Hi Zdeněk,
> these fonts can be used freely even in commercial environments but
> there are restrictions regarding distribution.  Most of the licenses
> forbid taking money for the distribution.
>
> If you are thinking about re-distribution you have to read the
> licenses carefully.  See
>
>   https://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts
>
> Once the fonts are installed you can access their licenses with
>
>   texdoc -l <fontpackage>
>
> I'm not a lawyer but I think that if your customer really needs fonts
> supported by getnonfreefonts you could give him a script which
> installs them on his machine.  This way you are not distributing the
> fonts but your customer installs them without violating licenses.
>
> As far as getnonfreefonts is concerned you can be sure that I'll never
> support fonts which can't be *used* freely.
>
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
>
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