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<blockquote data-quote="bigj" data-source="post: 83348" data-attributes="member: 10940"><p>A quick note about fonts and copyright - </p><p></p><p>my understanding is this - the name can be copyrighted or maybe trademarked, and the ttf file itself also I think; but NOT the actual shapes. </p><p>i.e. If you create a bitmap of a ttf and ship just the bitmap it is unencumbered.</p><p></p><p>The legal reasoning behind this goes - if you own the copyright on the 'shape' of a font then you'd get to 'grab' rights to all content created using it - which is just too much.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, to cut to the chase - if MP used bitmap fonts then copyright would not be an issue. But the run-time scaling and ttf provides is too useful to give up I guess so this is probably all academic.</p><p></p><p>BigJ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigj, post: 83348, member: 10940"] A quick note about fonts and copyright - my understanding is this - the name can be copyrighted or maybe trademarked, and the ttf file itself also I think; but NOT the actual shapes. i.e. If you create a bitmap of a ttf and ship just the bitmap it is unencumbered. The legal reasoning behind this goes - if you own the copyright on the 'shape' of a font then you'd get to 'grab' rights to all content created using it - which is just too much. Anyway, to cut to the chase - if MP used bitmap fonts then copyright would not be an issue. But the run-time scaling and ttf provides is too useful to give up I guess so this is probably all academic. BigJ. [/QUOTE]
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