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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Macintosh Fonts
Message-ID: <3570@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 87 15:56:54 GMT
References: <546@oscvax.UUCP> <1308@uhccux.UUCP> <2607@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric K. Olson)
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In a recent article peoples writes:
>In article <1308@uhccux.UUCP> cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) writes:
>>In article <546@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>>>I've recently converted a whole bunch of Macintosh fonts to the Amiga
>>>format and I'd like to put them on a public domain font disk.  However,
>>>I can see where there might be a few legal problems with doing this... 
>>>So my question is this, which Mac fonts (if any) could I release without
>>>being sued to bits? 
>>>
>>I think most of the fonts released by Apple are either copyrighted by
>>Apple itself, or licensed to them by ITC, Adobe or others.
[Much deleted]

Just to make matters more confusing, I have heard from more than one source
that the Screen Fonts (the bitmaps used on the Mac screen) for the fonts in
the Laserwriter (i.e., Courier, Times, Helvetica, Zapf Dingbats, but NOT 
New York, Cairo, Monaco, etc.) are placed in the Public Domain by Adobe.  Note
that this does not mean that the Laserwriter Postscript Spline Fonts are PD,
just the screen representations.

This would mean that you can copy those bitmap fonts to your hearts content,
just stay away from Apple's own fonts.

-Eric

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