If you run Debian stable, you don't get the latest fonts, unless someone backports them actively. So this is useful to just get the latest and greatest fonts from Debian sid. It gets even worse with ...
If you've been in print design long enough you'll remember Type 1 fonts well. Introduced in 1984, they contained a printer font and a bitmap version of the screen font, they had eight character ...
These days such bitmap fonts are a rarity, with scalable vector-based fonts having taken their place on modern-day systems. This unfortunately also means that these fonts are at major risk of ...
At least in the US and South Korea, the font file and code are copyrighted, but the font design cannot be copyrighted. And likewise in both countries, bitmap fonts in general cannot be copyrighted.