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Originally Posted by chips42
Hi, I am not a programmer, but has anyone checked out the freetype 2 project. It can be licensed as both gpl or bsd... I do not know how it would be used...It also has a patent info page.
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Hi chips,
The freetype project isn't really relevant in this case. What freetype does is take a font and convert it into shapes suitable for viewing. That is, if you imagine a font file as describing letter shapes, freetype follows those descriptions to draw letters for you.
In fact, if you look at the Sony PRS "About" page, I believe it lists credit for freetype.
Drawing the fonts is a different issue from whether you are allowed to include a copy of a particular font inside an epub for public distribution.