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Re:Hotfile shut down by callum85 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:14AM (#6847339)
You don't need a licence to use a typeface in a design, only to install a font file on a computer. And OS X ships with a version of Helvetica so they might have just used that.
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Re:Hotfile shut down by lhgaghl on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @04:39PM (#6850437)
But you need a license to put JPEG files on your website. But I guess you already knew that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues

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