Listen, Mister, i'm not sure how much clearer i can make this, but before this turns into something ugly (and no one wants that), let's try this again.
From my previous posts:
Yes, commercial use. As a professional designer i'm actually allowed to do that.
In both cases, i'm fully compliant with the copyrights law.
The alarm is because you're making an invalid comparison because it's the reverse to this. The onus isn't on the person asking for the font to have the license. The onus is on you, yourself having purchased a license to the same font to use it commercially.
You should, as a matter of professional courtesy, assume i'm fully compliant with a service i provide, specially after i made it as clear as possible and was only considering the client side of the matter.
If you really want to make this about me, alright.
I certainly wouldn't risk my reputation on this forum. I would specially not risk my reputation as a designer.
Again, not saying that you wouldn't do this
Sure seems like it. Your initial assumption/warning brought us here.
(though seems like it would be an expensive free-time favor, buying fonts for other people's benefit)
I never said "favor". I said a service i'd provide on my spare time for a small fee.
If you're now trying again to assume on what's "expensive" or what's worth it, first consider that a scripting job is normally somewhere in the range of hundreds or thousands of dollares.
Buyng a 10-50 dollar single font is actually not a big investment considering the whole picture.
Still, i don't see how your opinion of an investment has anything to do with the matter at hand.
For me, it would mean i'd be able to add more fonts to my collection, with the cost of those being supported by the person resquesting the service. (or the favour, as you put it).
If i already owned the font the cost could be lower.
Once again, some conditions would apply.
Just saying that it's this kind of stuff that is massively overlooked when it comes to typefaces.
I can completely understand your personal issue with this. I really do and i also got bad experiences, not with fonts but with other types of media.
This is not a case of infringing copyrights. This is more a case of, (again another analogy), buying a guitar and making awful music with it. The person who sold me the guitar may not be happy about it, but they knew what it entitled.
Same with a font. I bought the font, i got the rights, i can create graphical content based on it.
(yes, again, i actually know my rights).
No respectable font developer would even dare contacting me over a bitmap, not when they got my name on their client list and they're aware of the implications of our mutual agreement contract.
And there's absolutely no one being harmed here. The font developer got their money.
I feel like you may have misjudged the situation and it's not too late to back down.