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The license I linked expressly forbids "distribution of the fonts through file sharing services and online version control repositories accessible by the public"

It would be the same if you publicly hosted a zip file containing your site's contents, including the fonts. Or offered an open read-only FTP account to your /web/ directory. Or any number of ways to make the font available publicly that isn't via a web browser making a request triggered by a CSS rule.

If it's a private repository, I expect you'd be in the clear, since it's just acting as a very fancy webhost, and you can obviously upload your fonts to your webhost.




Indeed, it does. :)

In that case, it seems as though the rights-owner should simply take the standard route (even if suboptimal) to enforce their rights -- given the volume, they could likely work out a much better way to protect their IP (or automate it, in the worst case).

I'd be a little bit surprised if they cared a whole lot, given that finding the fonts is trivial for the reasons stated above. Almost comes across blog-spammy at that point, heh.




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