[frabjous]

Originally Posted by frabjous

Incidentally, does anyone know about the legality of embedding Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web in a (freely distributed, non-DRM) ePub? The EULA didn't exactly make it clear...

Originally Posted by darkpoet

First, let me say I assumed this was about the Windows XP fonts.

I said what fonts I was talking about. I don't know what you meant by "the Windows XP fonts", but I think the Core Fonts for the Web, at least the new ones, are different.

The simplest way to find the owner of a particular font on your system is to check the FONTS folder and double-click on the name of the font.

On my computer, for Georgia, it says "Typeface and data copyright 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved."

I tried this on another computer, and there it did not list an Owner. It listed Carter & Cone as the "Designer/Foundry", but that doesn't mean they own it. Under "Font Embeddability" it says "Editable", but I don't know what that means.

EDIT: OK, Microsoft has a description here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc958234.aspx
But it's still unclear. It says the font may be temporarily installed on the other system. But what does that mean in this context? Embedded in an ePub it doesn't have to be "installed" to use it at all. But I suppose I am giving the would-be extractor a chance to permanenly install it, so I guess that's a no-go, then?

Certain typefaces are obviously owned by Monotype, like Monotype Corsiva, and even taken-for-granted ones like Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, and Courier New, Symbol. I'm not sure about what others are included...

I had in mind things like Georgia, Verdana, and Trebuchet MS.

Including an unaltered font means including the original un-named TTF file...

This is not so clear. Somewhere else is speaks explicitly of the .exe and .sit files that the bundles are distributed in.