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Re:Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive ... by eterm on Monday December 09, 2013 @11:50AM (#6875127)
If this turns out to be erroneous, does anyone know what happens here? I assume that if it is clear error then the licensing won't be valid and they can revoke it?
Re:Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive ... by dublinben on Monday December 09, 2013 @12:56PM (#6875568)
According to the Apache 2.0 license:

>Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.

Re:Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive ... by vidarh on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:29PM (#6875813)
It is worth pointing out that this is only relevant if 1) they have the rights to it in the first place, which is not a given, and 2) a judge finds that someone trying to take advantage of the error is in the right, which is certainly not a given depending on jurisdiction - a long list of considerations might affect whether you could safely depend on the original license.

In this case it appears the copyright to the fonts is held by Commercial Type / Schartzco Inc., not The Guardian, and so they quite possibly don't have the authority to put them under the Apache license in the first place, making the license moot.

Re:Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive ... by eterm on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:21PM (#6875760)
That's a circular argument, you can't appeal to clauses in that license to determine if that license is valid. If they can withdraw the license then that clause is also withdrawn.

I don't know about copyright law but in contract law just because something is written in a contract doesn't make it automatically applicable.

An analogous situation may apply here where this can be considered a misapplication and so the license does not apply.

Either way I'd not use this licence to comply with "don't be a dick". Not being an ass here may encourage future releases, being an ass over this could lead to "this is why we can't have nice things.".