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From: ralphw@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: Mail from Participate at the University of Iowa
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 11:37:10 EST
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In article <299@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>
>1. Could folks who are posting from University of Iowa see if they could get
>their mailer fixed to use REAL Subjects rather than the rather uninformative
>"This is mail from U of I..."?
>
>2. As for Font Munger, Apple is selling this little sucker.  Note that one
>of the GS owners on CIS has discovered that it is buggy anyways.  What he
>has had to do is the following.
>
>a. Determine if the font is truely Public Domain.  If it isnt, then it may
>be restricted to use only on the Mac!

Everything I've seen discussed about fonts on the USENET implies that the
only thing that is restricted about fonts is usage of the name.
Due to a loophole in copyright law, fonts cannot be copyrighted.  Effectively
they are always 'public domain', although a user can agree to a contract
restricting further distribution (everything on Compuserve seems to be 
restricted this way.)   I believe the names can be trademarked, so that's what
the type houses do for at least minimal protection.

So, don't worry about using these 'Mac-only' fonts on the Apple ][GS.
You may want to give them different names, I don't know about trademark
law would allow you to use some trivial tranformation of the original name
(like GS-<Mac font name> or not.)
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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