Font licensing confusion
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Hi everyone. This is my first post on "The Code Project" forums. I'm a bit confused regarding font licensing issues. Let's imagine I've built a WinForms control and wish to sell it commercially. Technically the component doesn't package or distribute any fonts with it but would use the system fonts (or whatever the user has installed and specifies in the "Font" property). Logically I would imagine that there would be no font licensing issues since I'm not using a set font or distributing any fonts... but I'm just not sure. Can anyone here advise or let me know where to get advice? Thanks. CJ.
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Hi everyone. This is my first post on "The Code Project" forums. I'm a bit confused regarding font licensing issues. Let's imagine I've built a WinForms control and wish to sell it commercially. Technically the component doesn't package or distribute any fonts with it but would use the system fonts (or whatever the user has installed and specifies in the "Font" property). Logically I would imagine that there would be no font licensing issues since I'm not using a set font or distributing any fonts... but I'm just not sure. Can anyone here advise or let me know where to get advice? Thanks. CJ.
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Don't worry about the fonts since you're not packaging it with your control. Just go ahead. Even if the font does not exist in the target device, windows will substitute it with a font that closely resembles the requested font.
Thanks Shameel. I was hoping that would be the case. I've now set it to use whatever the user has set as their system default, as the initial font.