RE: [Plib-devel] legal matters

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Roma locuta est, causa finita est.

("Rome has spoken, the matter is finished.")

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow, Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
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-----Original Message-----
From: pli...@li...
[mailto:pli...@li...] On Behalf Of Steve Baker
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:52 PM
To: pli...@li...
Subject: Re: [Plib-devel] legal matters

There is no explicit protection for fonts or typeface designs in US or
European
copyright laws.  Some people have patented their fonts - others have tried
to use
trademark law - but copyrights do not apply.  Things may be different in
other
juristictions, but being legal everywhere on the planet is generally
impossible anyway.

They can license the actual files - and limit what the licensee does with
them,
but converting a font from vector to bitmap means we've simply rendered the
font - which is OK.

I don't think there are legal issues here.

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