tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) (04/08/89)
In article <4790@charon.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) writes: >Etc, however, if you distribute your stack, you may want to include the >special fonts [if they are public domain, of course] so the changes "stick" I read in the newspaper (San Francisco Chronicle) last fall that the USA courts had repeatedly ruled that electronic fonts could not be registered with the copyright office. I didn't snip the article, but it should be easy enough to find from the Index if your library carries the paper. I think it's a bogus ruling -- fonts definitely are works of art -- but it seems that at present, there are no legal restrictions on font distribution. -- Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim "Gorbachev is returning to the heritage of the great Lenin" - Ronald Reagan