Re: [Fontforge-users] Opening proprietary fonts

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:29, Andrew Bernstein wrote:
> For the record, copyright law does not protect typefaces themselves. 
In the US. I believe European nations provide more protections for
typefaces.
> It 
> protects their source code or datafiles only. Thus, you can make a new 
> version of Goudy, Helvetica, or whatever from scratch or based on 
> scanning old contact sheets but you cannot modify or copy a digital 
> file containing a font's metrics or its bitmaps.
Also the font's name may be trademarked, so you may have to name it
something else.