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<P>Hello,</P>
<P>I would like to embed CM and LM (Latin Modern) fonts in a pdf document and be
able to distribute that document.</P>
<P>I am trying to figure out if there are any legal restrictions.</P>
<P>As far as I understand the following license documents are relevant for the
LM fonts</P>
<P>1) GUST font license: http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt</P>
<P>2) the LaTeX Project Public License: <A
href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt">http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt</A></P>
<P>Is the act of embedding a font into a pdf document and distributing that
document covered by those licenses? Is it restricted by those licenses? Is it
treated as a "distribution" and/or "modification" of the font?</P>
<P>I do not find in those documents any direct information about how a document
with an embedded font should be treated.</P>
<P>Is it a "derived work" (derived from the font)?</P>
<P>Regards,</P>
<P>Grzegorz Balcerek</P>
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