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?
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.
They’re still copyrighted and owned by Microsoft, according to the pages at Microsoft’s site:
http://www.microsoft.com/permission/copyrgt/cop-soft.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’.”
Thanks. I found out last year, but forgot to post back.