thanks to all of you for the information. Stefan
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:02:26AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:17:04PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote: > > i'm planning to package a perl tool i made (available at > > http://tools.desire.ch/perlbeat) which includes some gifs using the IMPACT > > (windows) truetype font. > > now i wonder if this is ok, because i don't know about impact's license. > > does anyone? > > Distribution of rendered fonts is legal provided that you aquired the font > rendered legally. That is to say, if you have a legal copy of a font you > are entitled to use it. Case law for this predates computers by at least > 100 years and comes from the day that fonts were made of metal and put > into printing presses. > > -- > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 > Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC > The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 > > <jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named > stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-) > <stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386 > with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman. > <stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor > * Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing > <stu> and.. > <stu> double-height hard drive
