CAPTCHA font
As mentioned on sm.org, I'm not clear over the fonts used in SMF/Wedge/Elk as being licensed for redistribution. I should note: I'm no lawyer, I'm not sure what the state of play is, and I've 'suggested' to SMF that they contact Ray Larabie to find out what the position is.
I don't know if they reached some agreement way back when, or not, but in the interim I replaced the fonts with my own. It's a crazy-tiny file because it only covers the A-Z glyphs needed for the CAPTCHA and it's a chunky font, so it should be reasonably good for users.
Licence for the font is CC-BY-SA-3.0. I just want to make you guys aware that I think there's an issue and here's a replacement you can use should you be so inclined - you may need to adjust the dimensions used in the CAPTCHA code, not sure.
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Nice Arantor, probably safer just to change and be sure!
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Well, that's the thing... we don't know what licence they're under. For all we know, they might have been under an open licence back then and used as such. Unlikely, sure, but that's why I'd like confirmation.
You're entirely right, replacing it with a proper open licence would be advantageous but that would appear to be beyond them. Don't fix what isn't broken and all that.
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Ema: You don't need to have similar fonts. You just need to have some fonts that are suitably licensed and suitably readable. Uniqueness is quite useful, too.
IchBin: It's not a strong argument, unfortunately. Unless you're going to be getting the questions at install time, you're going to be leaving admins without any defences out of the box. That doesn't seem wise to me. Getting questions at install time has its own issues, too.