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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet Downloadable Fonts
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Date: 27 Mar 89 22:19:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 27 16:19:00 1989



>Uh, not exactly...  The shapes of the individual glyphs (neat word,
>huh?) in a typeface can not be legally protected, but PostScript
>__Programs__ to draw those characters very _definitely_ can--those who
>think otherwise might hear from Adobe's legal dept...

>As for bit map font files, well, INAL, but I think that those are very
>probably covered by copyright, too.  I certainly wouldn't want to find
>out the hard way...

My original suggestion did not include Postscript programs ,
which are indeed programs like any other.
Nor do I know about entire bitmap font FILES.
Those would include the most certainly
protected name and mabye, or maybe not, protectable downloading info.

What I was suggesting was, for example, taking the glyphs of
a font and making, for example, an equivalent TeX .pxl file. 
Those I can download to my printer and use. Or convert into a
downloading file I generate myself. 

At least this is how it was explained to me.