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In <1993Jan21.172248.13913@bsu-ucs> 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:


>Hello, all.  I just got Metamorphosis Pro and I've been converting several PS
>Type 1 fonts to TrueType.  (What can I say- I like it! :)  What I need to know
>is, if I convert copyrighted fonts (Say, Adobe Garamond) can these fonts then
>be distributed, or are they still copyrighted to Adobe?  I recall a few months
>(maybe a year?) back that faces converted between formats were no longer
>copyrighted.  I just wanna be SAFE before I go posting any of them to the
>InterNet.

It depends on the country you are in whether the fonts themselves are
copyrighted, but the programs to print them (i.e. the PostScript) is, and the
converted programs just as well -- think of it as having the copyrighted
source code of a program, compiling that won't change the copyright status --
coverting is another way of compiling (and vice versa), so I won't distribute
those fonts, if you want to stay inside the law.

If you want to distrubute fonts for free, I encourage you, but, even when
those big font sellers ask to much money for their things, and pay to much to
their lawyers, I don't think it is proper to distribute their work -- just
make your own for yourself, or pick free fonts to distribute --unlike some
people tell here on the newsgroup, there are perfect and good hinted fonts in
the public domain -- whereas I often see commercial vendors ask huge amounts
of money for horrible fonts -- just received a sample of a Hebrew font that is
so ugly and clearly made in one night -- still they asked 75 pounds for it.

--
Jeroen

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