On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote:

> Could you please clarify? MS bought font(s) originally designed as
> freeware??

MS doesn't have exclusive right on Nazanin or Mitra. If you have not
acquired your copy of Nazanin from Microsoft or Monotype, they are talking
about another Nazanin. Please tell the MS guy about it.

> Does the first person who made Nazanin know about this?  I sort of
> imagined all these fonts were created in the 1980s out of some love of
> Persian computing with no plans for making any money.

Sinasoft doesn't claim any copyright on their old TTF fonts. That's the 
reason Borna Rayaneh could stamp its own copyright on their fonts. I know 
this from the discussions me and other HCI representatives have had with 
Sinasoft's CEO.

They may have possibly sold a copy of the font with some non-exclusive 
rights to Monotype. But that's unrelated.

roozbeh

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