[4254] in SIPB bug reports
tex fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Wed Nov 17 18:06:56 1993
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 18:05:48 -0500
From: jh@oobleck.mit.edu (Joe Harrington)
To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Calvin Clark's message of Wed, 17 Nov 93 18:00:48 -0500 <9311172300.AA20422@hodge.MIT.EDU>
Cc: jh@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@MIT.EDU
not illegal. fonts and font outlines have been declared unpatentable
by the US patent office, and Adobe chose to encrypt them in their
printer hardware rather than attempt to copyright them (copyright
would probably have failed to protect them). someone broke the
encryption several years ago.
--jh--
