<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16788" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>>Let's put our energy into getting font designers to support the<BR>>project, and not into trying to find a half-dozen fonts that were<BR>>badly released 10 or 20 years ago and might or might not be<BR>>protected by copyright.  The goal is to create a community of people<BR>>designing and releasing type, not to try and find legal loopholes to<BR>>annoy the very people we want to attract.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All I was doing was asking if anyone knew of any fonts which are Public Domain due to not having a copyright added at the time. I know of no such fonts, but since it is one of the primary ways things enter(ed)</DIV> <DIV>the public domain, and there are probably some such fonts out there, the best thing to do would probably be to add something to the wiki somewhere noting the possible/probable existance of fonts which are in Public Domain due being released in the United States before March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice. Using such fonts would probably be unethical, but since they are in the body of "open fonts", they do deserve mention.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>FF</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="c7300a4b64fe3873cbca15d26e08b417"><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making <a href="http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026">headlines</a>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>