On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:36:55PM -0700, Scott Johnson (Bellevue) wrote:
> > From: Bob Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > I was able to break out 16 fonts from Clipper,
> > including the one I was interested in.
>
> Be careful Bob -- extracting the Clipper 'NFNT' resources does work fine in
> a technical sense, but when I inquired about this several months ago, I was
> told by a Palm representative that it wouldn't be legal to do this,
> license-wise. I'd suggest you contact Palm directly and see what they say
> about this.
1. If it is intended for a Palm VII or wireless device, he could just
open Clipper itself as a resource database and use the NFNTs by
number.
2. Fonts themselves (bitmaps or equations) weren't copyrightable
unless some new law was passed I don't know about. However typeface
names (Times, Bocklin, Helvetica) are tradmarks.
Extracting an NFNT resource might have a licensing term problem, but
capturing a clip page with all the letters on it and entering the
patterns into a pilrc file wouldn't be AFAIK, but IANAL.
(Or get a mac and look at its NFNTs or collections thereof - one
should be a near duplicate; did Palm license them from Apple? Several
look familiar...).
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