Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!midas!copper!jackd
From: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody?
Message-ID: <2682@copper.SDP.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 88 17:47:39 GMT
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Reply-To: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <81330@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>Before you do this, I suggest you double-check with Adobe that it's okay.
>there's a big difference between passing the fonts around among friends and
>making them available via a network. You might find yourself in violation of
>their licenses if you aren't careful. I don't see why they should mind,
>personally, but I wouldn't take it for granted.
>
Has anyone heard of a recent court ruling pertaining to the copywrite
status of computer fonts?  Someone told me that the court held that
the underlying code to generate fonts (the printed form, not just the
screen version) was held to be unprotected.  Of course my friend could
just be rationalizing--he's got 75 purloined fonts sitting on his hard
disk.

jack decker