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Originally Posted by paulpeer
FontSquirrel indeed has a lot of nice fonts, but as far as I understand the licences, almost none of them can be used in ePubs. One of the licences states e.g.:
Every ePub can be edited and everyone can extract the fonts. Or is it enough that in the book is written that it may not be edited?
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You're referring to the Exljbris licence, which
explicitly states:
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You may use this font for Font-Face embedding, but only if you put a link to http://www.exljbris.nl on your page and/or put this notice /* A font by Jos Buivenga (exljbris) -> http://www.exljbris.nl */ in your CSS file as near as possible to the piece of code that declares the Font-Face embedding of this font.
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This, of course, is exactly what is being done when embedding a font in an epub. All that's required is the addition of the required text to the css file.
Both epubs and web pages are intended as delivery formats. Both may be edited by an end-user if they have the correct tools and skills, but the same is true of PDFs. I see
absolutely no reason for this licence to exclude use in epubs, in fact it explicitly allows the mechanism by which it would be used.