Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 5, 2006, at 03:06, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> The characters in the document are not subject to copyright. > > Yes, in the U.S. if all alleged computer programness of the font is > gone and the glyphs are bitmapped or on paper but is that also true > of embedded hinted fonts in PDF? (I thought such embedding is subject > to license but foundries generally grant the permission to embed in > final-form formats like PDF.)
AFAIK, if a font is included completely in the PDF doucment, i.e. not subsetted, it's technically possible to extract it again (and even if it is subsetted, you just have to collect enough documents to get all glyphs). So if it is technically possible to extract and reuse the font, but forbidden by the license, this is non-free. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
