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djh_
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I've been looking into this for a while. From what I've read, it's okay to buy a font for inclusion in a distributable app so long as it's embedded in such a way that it can't be reused by a third party. XBMC doesn't support that at present, but might there be a way of, say, bundling the fonts in an xpr? I suspect that's a really dumb idea.
Does anyone have any experience in the matter?
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Jeroen
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That's something I have been wondering about too. A lot of skins use a commercially available and/or copyrighted fonts, as does mine. What are the chances of trouble when they are distributed through SVN?
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djh_
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Well, I've luckily found a free alternative that's actually decent. If you can do the same, I'd recommend it. Don't fancy facing a few thousand copyright cases rolled into one.
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I can guarantee that we'll never do this.
If XBMC can extract it to display it (or any computer program whatsoever) then a human can extract it as well.
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Livin
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OS's have a font "library"... why not rely on the system fonts and let the use choose any that they'd like? Thus, don't distro any fonts with XBMC (except for XBOX).
I'm not an expert but I play one at work.
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djh_
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Typically, the one font from all those sources that fit the bill was... open type, which I don't think XBMC supports.
Others came close but let themselves down with wrongly-sized glyphs (i.e. one letter is slightly taller or shorter than the others), which seems to be a common trait among free fonts. You only need look at Aeon's current menu font for an example.
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pike
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it only makes sense that commercial fonts are higher quality. This is usually the norm for everything, with just a few exceptions (hint hint nude nudge)