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Verdana and Georgia in the Public Domain?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:35 pm
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Someone in the Yahoo Pali group claims that these fonts are in the public domain. Pali scholars are usually honest, but I wonder if he is just misinformed. These fonts would be good for me to use because they are widely available and good quality.

Anybody have any definite information about this?

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:39 am
by Erwin Denissen
If you want to be sure you should contact the font vendor. You could also read the license agreement, located in the advanced naming window.

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:41 pm
by andrewq
They're still copyrighted and owned by Microsoft, according to the pages at Microsoft's site:

http://www.microsoft.com/permission/cop ... .htm#Fonts

"The following fonts are wholly owned by Microsoft and are not available to license for redistribution, 'Verdana', 'Georgia', 'Comic Sans MS', 'MS Sans Serif', 'Tahoma', 'Wingdings', 'Webdings' and 'Trebuchet MS'."

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:48 am
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thanks. I found out last year, but forgot to post back.