Fonts for Commercial Projects Part 99

On these forums, whether it is Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, ect the Apple EULA (for front usage) is pretty much the same. There are also tons of threads addressing this question.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16898528#16898528
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19781608#19781608
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20150843#20150843
I just need clarification. I just switched to freelance design work and need to know how I can really use these fonts in any client work.
From what I am understanding, Apple purchased fonts from some foundries. It purchased the rights to install these fonts on their operating system for customers to use them for personal use i.e., like a resume or powerpoint presentation.
However, these fonts can not be used say for a logo, book, publication, web design or basically anything that would be outside the scope of what a designer would create for a client. UNLESS, I go through each and EVERY single font Apple provided with its software and read each and EVERY font EULA?
Even if I read all of them, they are usually little to no help. Zapfino, for example, the font info preview states nothing useful (included below.)
So basically, I am forced to hide all fonts by apple so I know which ones I can use for logos, web design, ect? This seems ridiculous! When I purchase fonts from foundries, reading each EULA is one thing, but goodness for Apple? We don't have to for Adobe
Sorry guys, most designers seem to think you can use anything installed for projects. I don't want to end up in trouble down the road and find this VERY frustrating. Apologies for the rant!
Zapfino EULA from Fontbook preview:
PostScript name
Zapfino
Full name
Zapfino
Family
Zapfino
Style
Regular
Kind
TrueType
Language
Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh
Version
6.0d2e1
Location
/Library/Fonts/Zapfino.dfont
Unique name
Zapfino; 6.0d2e1; 2006-07-19
Designer
Hermann Zapf
Copyright
Copyright (c) 1999-2002, Linotype Library GmbH & affiliates. All rights reserved.
Trademark
Linotype Zapfino is a Trademark of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions, exclusively licensed through Linotype Library GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
Description
Today's digital font technology has allowed renowned type designer Hermann Zapf to realise a dream he first had more than fifty years ago: to create a fully calligraphic typeface.
Enabled
Yes
Duplicate
No
Copy protected
No
Embeddable
Yes

Hi Kurt,
I just looked at your other responses and am glad you are here The thread below states the moderaters were contacted and we are ok to use the fonts. I ended up submitting a question to the legal team at apple too. If I recieve a response I will show you.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/396465?start=0&tstart=0
Just one more question though from your response:
Kurt Lang wrote:
From the Lion license agreement:
F. Fonts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the fonts included with the
Apple Software to display and print content while running the Apple Software; however, you may only
embed fonts in content if that is permitted by the embedding restrictions accompanying the font in
question. These embedding restrictions can be found in the Font Book/Preview/Show Font Info
panel.
It does read somewhat strange. The first part is easy. You can use the fonts however you want for your own use. Embedding is also clear. You need to check the restrictions as shown in Font Book's Info panel. What it doesn't cover is sending the fonts along with a project as is (not embedded). Is that okay? The license doesn't cover that scenario. I think you'd have to go by each font's individual license to be sure.
The only thing Font Book preview provides regarding embedding (for Apple's fonts anyway) is:
Enabled               Yes
Duplicate              No
Copy Protected     No
Embeddable          Yes
It doesn't state anything else about embedding. Does embedding yes indicate it's ok OR does it mean the font file extension is embeddable? For instance, .dfont maybe is not embeddable (no idea if that is the case just an example.)
Thanks so much!

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