From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 18:47:17 EST
At 02:35 PM 12/3/2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Yes but your paid license to Fontlab may include some royaltees paid by
>Fontlab authors to Apple to use their hinting technology. So you get the
>right to use it to author fonts that you can distribute...
I'm pretty sure that FontLab does not pay royalties to Apple for this. In
the ten years that I have been working as a professional type designer,
Apple has never suggested that they require licensing for anything except
the interpretation of hints in the font scalar (rasteriser). The whole
point of TrueType was to break Adobe's font technology licensing monopoly,
so restricting any aspect of font production and distribution would have
been counter-productive.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
Theory set out to produce texts that could not be processed successfully
by the commonsensical assumptions that ordinary language puts into play.
There are texts of theory that resist meaning so powerfully ... that the
very process of failing to comprehend the text is part of what it has to offer
- Lentricchia & Mclaughlin, _Critical terms for literary study_
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