B&H Fonts and XFree86

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:48:50PM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> I got pulled into a discussion on a non-software mailing list regarding
> fonts. It was claimed that redistributing the Lucida fonts was illegal.
> This surprised me since these are included with XFree86, which I still
> consider to be freely redistributable. The dispute involved trying to
> acquire these fonts in order to reproduce the style of a certain
> publisher.

Data point, and I'm not sure it's relevant.

The Plan 9 OS license from Lucent has a specific carve-out for fonts.  I
don't know if these are the same fonts in question or others.

Note that in general there is a distinction made between fonts as they
are printed and appear on paper, and the program used to generate fonts.
The only instances I'm aware of in which copyright is applied to fonts
applies specifically to the programs generating the typeface, not the
typeface itself.

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