[comp.lang.postscript] copyrighting postscript fonts

ajb@cs.brown.edu (Atul Butte) (09/30/90)

Let's say I am a Mac user of a PostScript font from, say, Adobe. Now let's
say I used that font in a word processing document and that instead of printing
the document to a laser printer, I saved the PostScript into a file.

Now the PostScript information for the font is included in the file. But
it's MY document. Am I legally able to distribute the file? Is the file
a "derived work?"  Does this mean that I can distribute the printed version
(using the same font), but I can't distribute the on-line version to create
the printed version?

Please enlighten me. Thanks,

Atul Butte
Brown University
ajb@cs.brown.edu