I had the same thought. Makes me think we're getting old and the old ways of the web just aren't known as widely anymore.

I've had to do this several times in the past because the customer firewall blocks google domains, and it never required a second thought. The only question I had was around the legality of doing so (which I checked on). Once I verified that, it was about 2 minutes of wget (or curl) the file down, stick in a static web server, and update the links in the HTML page and Bob's your Uncle

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jrm4 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a lawyer so an example something I WOULD NEVER SAY IN EARNEST, but I perhaps would if I wasn't might be:

"And perhaps even the idea of having to think about the legality of such things is part of the problem, I can remember when we'd just DO IT."

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jraph a day ago | parent | prev [-]

And it's legal because Google Fonts hosts open source fonts exclusively :-)

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xp84 20 hours ago | parent [-]

I would almost agree, but I wouldn't want to assert that confidently without an attorney since there could be some attribution obligation or something. After all, "open source" != "public domain"

	▲	jraph 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Attribution is required by almost all licenses even permissive indeed. I'm not sure that it matters that you or Google hosts it. Same as any free software actually.