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Re: Opus font: Sibelius 7 Acorn Rise OS versions

Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 10:28
by benwiggy
tomsmatejames wrote: 16 Sep 2025, 13:31 I’d also be interested to know if anyone’s clued in on the legality of attempting to make a revival of the Acorn version of Opus that would work on modern systems — from what I can gather the font license would forbid it, but I’m no expert, especially as the original version is out of use (some symbols do seem to have stuck around through the revisions though).
Everything is protected unless explicitly stated otherwise. (In fact, open source licences like GPL use copyright law to assert their 'demands' on what can and can't be done.)

So, any port to modern font formats would be a breach of copyright, without permission.