Restrictions apply to copying Font Software -- Indesign CS3

Receive Indesign CS3 Error " Restrictions apply to copying font software for use by a service provider. You are required to comply with applicable copyright law and the terms of your license agreement. For font software licensed from adobe , your agreement provides that you may take a copy of the fonts you have used for a particular file to a commercial printer or other service provider , and the provider may use the fonts to process your file, provided the provider has informed you that it has the right to use that particular software . For other font software , please obtain permission from from your vendor "
Please provide me a solution for this error............

What Ken said, mostly. It says if the fonts are from Adobe you may give them to the printer to be used for printing your job provided that the printer has a license for those fonts, but that if you use fonts from other vendors the rules may be different.
Generally speaking, it is a violation of most font EULAs to give the font to a service provider unless they have a license for that font. Generally speaking this is also generally ignored by most users and many providers, making it probably the biggest violation of software licensing on planet Earth.
This problem is avoided by using a PDF workflow and embedding fonts with the appropriate permission to allow embedding for output. Fonts without that permission are not worth owning.
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