Re: Font Copyrights

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From: rayan
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 00:19

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In article <483@unirot.UUCP> patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) writes:
# You can either buy the font from the owner (in the case of Times Roman,
# that would be Allied Linotype); this is typically done by licensing the
# font for use on your device.  You can also go to someone that is licensed
# to provide the font under an agreement with the trademark holder (e.g.,
# Adobe "licenses" Times Roman to you when you buy a PostScript device).

Suppose you don't want to licence the font for a particular device, but
for a site; i.e. present and future devices of known and unforeseeable kinds?
One can license fonts for a particular device, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Devices are volatile objects. I would like to license the bitmaps, or the
font description, put the stuff on disk, and (be able to) use it on all our
devices.

Will they do that? Oh Nooo... and therefore, they lose our money, and my
respect. Growl.

rayan

-- 
Rayan Zachariassen
AI group, University of Toronto

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