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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Worry: Using Exotic Fonts
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Date: 2 Mar 90 06:38:38 GMT
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In article <3752@sage.cc.purdue.edu>, arh@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric B) writes:
 
>    Why don't you ask a lawer about the legalities of publishing a {paper,
> article, book, journal} with licensed fonts?  The best place to do that
> is in misc.legal.  Please direct all followups about this topic there.

Let's forget legalities and talk about what's reasonable. If a
PostScript file contains a font, which is clearly ONLY meant to be used
for printing that file, I don't see why this should be seen as violating
someone's copyright, since the font was bought for that purpose. The
solution would appear to be to allow embedding the font in a PS file, in
the same spirit as (e.g.) some compiler licence agreements allow you to
embed libraries in code you distribute, as long as you don't sell the
libraries themselves.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu