Legality of using Fonts

[Ross Ridge]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In any case, even in the USA, hinted fonts are copyrightable, and merely
> removing the hints (say, by converting to a bitmap) is no more legal than
> whiting out the author's name from a book and claiming it as your own.

That's an absurd comparison. By making a bitmap font from an hinted
outline font you're only copying the typeface, you're not copying the
hints, the computer program, that's the only part of the font that's
subject copyright.  If a book consisted of two parts, the first a play
by Shakespeare, and the second a commentary of that play, and someone
copied only the first part, they'd be doing nothing illegal.


     Ross Ridge