🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <229800002@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Another possibility would be to find someone who has a set of downloadable
> fonts, either from HP, from Bitstream (e.g. the ones I got free with
> WordPerfect) or from a cloner. Make a copy of them on floppies.
> Use debug to edit out the copyright, and change the name of the font
> to something else. Then take them home and use them. Give them to your
> friends. The BIT PATTERNS of the fonts cannot be copyrighted
> or patented or protected in any other way (unless of course you
> buy them after signing some sort of paper saying you agree to give
> away your rights!). The names can be and are protected.
> 
> And, most important, call you congressman to make sure it stays 
> this way!

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...

Cheers,
-- jra