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In general, bitmap fonts are not copyrightable in the United States. Scalable fonts like TrueType and so on are protected as computer programs, but typefaces are not copyrightable and bitmap fonts are just direct representations of the typeface.

Other countries have different treatment of typefaces, though.




You could sell non copyrightable product, right? I don't think it is implicit that GP can redistribute without author's approval.




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