[luau] Mozilla 1.2.1 released

W. Wayne Liauh LiauhW001 at Hawaii.rr.com
Tue Dec 3 22:58:00 PST 2002


1.  Xft was available in Moz 1.2 (or 1.2b, I am confused), but you had 
to put it in manually, a big pain in the butt.

2.  Whether it be type1, truetype, or now freetype, it involves a 
certain definition/specification, and no one "owns" truetype.  But after 
Adobe trademarked "Times New Roman," you are prohibited from using it 
"in the stream of commerce". There is a truetype font called "Thornburg" 
which is supposed to be a clone of and identical to "Times New Roman" 
font.  But the free software community is not interested in accepting 
ttf clones.

3.  I am not familiar with any restrictions against redistribution of 
Microsoft fonts.  But even if there are no restrictions, a potential 
"redistributor" may still be prohibited from calling them "Microsoft 
this and that fonts", because we may have a potential trademark 
infringement problem.  In other words, we are talking about two 
different types of intellectual properties.




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