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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Legal issues behind OpenType
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Deepayan Sarkar |
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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Legal issues behind OpenType |
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Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:23:25 -0600 |
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On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:02 pm, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Anyone has any ideas behind the legal issues behind OpenType...
> I mean - patents/eula/other legal blurb ??
No concrete ideas.
> AFAIK - there are a number of patent issues (involving M$/Adobe/Apple)
> over True Type - and since OpenType is an extension of True Type - these
> patent problems may have been carried over into OT :-(
The patent problems I have heard about are Apple patents, covering the
rendering of the fonts, not the fonts themselves. Details at
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html