Re: Adobe Licence links

[Stephen Haggai <st...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jukka.

I have looked at one of the font files (Courier.afm) and it says,
"Notice Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 Adobe Systems
Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.". My assumption here is that the
phrase "All Rights Reserved" means that I cannot use this file for any
purpose and as such cannot use for my program. Is that right? My
apologies for my ignorance as I am pretty new to copyright stuff.

Thanks,
Stephen


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Haggai <st...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have looked at the page http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font.html#pcfi
>> and found the licence for AFM at the bottom of the page in the files
>> under the heading "PDF core font information" and the subheading "Font
>> Metrics for PDF Core 14 fonts". I am not able to find any licence
>> information for CMaps though. The files under the "CMaps for PDF CJK
>> Fonts" do not have any licence information. Am I looking for this
>> information in the wrong file.
>
> License details are included as %%Copyright comments inside the CMap
> files. You'll find them if you open the files in a text editor.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting

Re: Adobe Licence links

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Stephen Haggai <st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have looked at one of the font files (Courier.afm) and it says,
> "Notice Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 Adobe Systems
> Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.". My assumption here is that the
> phrase "All Rights Reserved" means that I cannot use this file for any
> purpose and as such cannot use for my program. Is that right? My
> apologies for my ignorance as I am pretty new to copyright stuff.

Ah, the afm files don't have full license headers (the cmap ones do).

The license for using the afm files is included in the MustRead.html
file inside the same package. The file says:

    This file and the 14 PostScript(R) AFM files it accompanies may be
    used, copied, and distributed for any purpose and without charge,
    with or without modification, provided that all copyright notices
    are retained; that the AFM files are not distributed without this
    file; that all modifications to this file or any of the AFM files
    are prominently noted in the modified file(s); and that this
    paragraph is not modified. Adobe Systems has no responsibility or
    obligation to support the use of the AFM files.

BR,

Jukka Zitting