Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!deimos!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald
From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Jasmine LaserPrinter
Message-ID: <47700034@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 16:18:00 GMT
References: <1055@naucse.UUCP>
Lines: 11
Nf-ID: #R:naucse.UUCP:1055:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:47700034:000:472
Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Dec 16 10:18:00 1988


>Every major PostScript printer out there today uses Adobe [fonts].  I can't
>imagine this one doesn't--they would be stupid not to.

>Unless, of course, they care about a silly little thing called "cost."

But fonts are different from licensing PostScript itself. All they
have to do is get the font descriptions somehow and copy them
(or clone them). Fonts, both bitmap and lineshape, cannot be
protected by copyright (or patent for that matter.) Only the
names can be.