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Re:How Font Awesome 5 Became Kickstarter’s Most Funded Softw... by tf2manu994 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:26PM (#13074387)
Wouldn't the end-user be able to download it from the cdn anyway? Would an alternative not be to allow them in an open source repo provided that the owner adds a readme to the folder in which the font resides, telling the end-user to refrain from downloading?

Edit: what about an open source non-electron web application? How would they use the font?

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Re:How Font Awesome 5 Became Kickstarter’s Most Funded Softw... by fortawesome on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:31PM (#13074874)
If someone can see a font, they can pirate it. We just don't want to make it really, really easy.
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