Apple fonts licensing

fonty python, welcome to Apple Discussions. (You have a unique name.)

You probably need to send a letter to Apple.

Apple Computer, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

 Cheers, Tom 😉

fonty --
Welcome to Apple Discussions!

(My name is Bee and I am a fontaholic . . . )

This question has been brought up before by conscientious designers like yourself,
and I believe that if a font comes as a System Font with a Mac OS, is it now in the
public domain. I usually pay close attention to all matter fontish, and I'm pretty
sure I'm correct. Stay tuned.

Many years ago, when the Mac was new, I made a series of music fonts so that you could type a musical score in a word processor. Font Editor was the only font maker and it did not do kerning, so I used Fedit, a disk editor, to make zero width characters by editing the font file. Times have changed!

It never went far. The ImagerWriter driver for the wide carriage ImageWritter made a mess out of things. Zero width strings would not print and that meant many notes in a cord would be deleted. Also I was using different font sizes for different note durations and the LaserWriter scaled from the largest point size which made a mess.

Boy, Hardy . . .
I always thought you were a kindred spirit!
I remember, "Insert the Disk."
Music fonts. What a wonderful concept!