1. Xft was available in Moz 1.2 (or 1.2b, I am confused), but you had
to put it in manually, a big pain in the butt.
2. Whether it be type1, truetype, or now freetype, it involves a
certain definition/specification, and no one "owns" truetype. But after
Adobe trademarked "Times New Roman," you are prohibited from using it
"in the stream of commerce". There is a truetype font called "Thornburg"
which is supposed to be a clone of and identical to "Times New Roman"
font. But the free software community is not interested in accepting
ttf clones.
3. I am not familiar with any restrictions against redistribution of
Microsoft fonts. But even if there are no restrictions, a potential
"redistributor" may still be prohibited from calling them "Microsoft
this and that fonts", because we may have a potential trademark
infringement problem. In other words, we are talking about two
different types of intellectual properties.
