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Font "Albany"
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:03 pm
by M.Reschke
Can anybody give me some informations about the font "Albany": Is this font free, using a free licence? Can I use it professionell or are there any limitations? Where can I get more informations about this font?
Thank you very much!
Michael Reschke
Re: Font "Albany"
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:21 pm
by acknak
The TTF file I have includes this notice:
Digitized data copyright 2001 Agfa Monotype Corporation. All rights reserved. Albany is a trademark of Agfa Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
I'm not 100% clear on the history of this font in relation to OOo. I seem to recall that it was bundled with OOo at one time, but not now. It may have been licensed by Sun and/or Star Division for distribution with OOo, but it does not appear to be a freely-distributable font.
Re: Font "Albany"
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:25 pm
by h1h
according to the german wikipedia it is under a free licence
Re: Font "Albany"
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:40 pm
by acknak
It was licensed for distribution with some open source products (Corel Linux, Red Hat Linux), but I see no evidence that the font is under any kind of "free" license, by any meaning of the word. Just because a font is bundled "for free" with some product does not mean it the font itself is freely licensed.
Re: Font "Albany"
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:23 pm
by h1h
Helvetica aka Arial
not that it makes a big difference, but Helvetica is not "also known as" Arial. Helvetica has been around long before the main distributer of Arial or Arial itself. I think since 1957. If at all, Arial is a clone of Helvetica.