Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a blue background, it's not clear that a black font would be

Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I apologize if this does not belong on this list, since it is not specifically related to Debian. The International Symbol of Access (the wheelchair symbol that's used all over the place), to the best of my knowledge, is unfree. Its conditions of use can be seen at

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: The International Symbol of Access (the wheelchair symbol that's used all over the place), to the best of my knowledge, is unfree. Its conditions of use can be seen at http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/japanese/resource/other/z00014/z0001406_e.html It's

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:51:31AM -0400, Nathan Edges II wrote: [...] http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/japanese/resource/other/z00014/z0001406_e.html [...] If a font includes [the symbol of access wheelchair] as a character, can it be free? The character itself isn't non-free, but rather the

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a blue background, it's not clear that a black font would be a derivative work of such a design. I didn't think simply changing colors removed the original copyright.

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a blue background, it's not clear that a black font would be a ^ derivative work of such a

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a blue background, it's not clear that a black font would be a

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-14 Thread Don Armstrong
First off, we're not talking about free/non-free here; we're talking about who controls the copyright of a glyph in a font. The free/non-free nature of the glyph is dependent on how that work is licensed, not the copyright status of the work. On Tue, 15 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: But a