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| image = [[File:GPL+FE (GNU GPL with Font Exception).svg|200px]]

| caption = A community generated icon for the GPL+FE

| license clause author = [[David "Novalis" Turner]]

| version =

| publisher = [[Free Software Foundation]]

| date = April{{Start 20,date and age|2005|04|20}}

| OSI approved =

| Debian approved =

| FreeFSF approved Software = Yes

| GPL compatible = Yes

| copyleft = Yes

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== Origin ==

The font exception was authored in April 2005 by David "Novalis" Turner, a [[Free Software Foundation]] GPL compliance engineer. As he explains, "The situation we were considering was one where a font was embedded in a document (rather than merely referenced). Embedding allows a document to be viewed as the author intended it even on machines that don't have that font installed. So, the document (a copyrighted work) would be derived from the font program (another work). The text of the document, of course, would be unrestricted when distributed without the font."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Desjardins|first1=Louis|title=[Scribus] Response from the FSF about GPL fonts|url=http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2005-April/018877.html|website=Scribus discussion list|access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=David "Novalis"|title=Font Licensing|url=http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis|website=FSF Blog|publisher=Free Software Foundation|access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref>

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== Usage ==

To indicate a font exception to the GPL, a digital font creator adds the following language to the end of the GPL text distributed with their font:

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== References ==

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[[Category:Free content licenses]]