Re: x3270 licenses

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Brian Ristuccia <brian@ristuccia.com> writes:

> I recall a precedent here in the US where a document was not infected by the
> copyright on the fonts used therein. It seemed to say that so long as you've
> lawfully aquired a font, you're free to use it when typesetting any
> documents you like. You might want to check the legal archives before
> deciding on this. If I recall correctly, this may have been back far enough
> that fonts were still made of metal and typesetting was still done with
> plates -- but it should still apply in our case.

See the comp.fonts FAQ:
	http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/
Note that this applies only in the U.S.  Particularly it doesn't
apply in Europe.
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