Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
On Jan 29, 2004, at 21:31, Branden Robinson wrote: Adobe is probably busy lobbying to get a certain bill passed which will rectify that little defect in U.S. copyright law. If the Court has any shred of basic literacy left in reading the Constitution, that should go nowhere. Not sure at the moment if they do, though. We'll see fairly soon, with the Sept. 11 cases. And, hey, I can hope that if they do strike it down something like that, it'll establish a precedent that the Constitution does not give Congress unlimited power w/r/t/ copyrights. OK, I'd really have to be /really/ high to believe that one :-(
Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
O Xoves, 29 de Xaneiro de 2004 ás 17:06:06 +0900, Kenshi Muto escribía: Do you have any idea to cope with this situation? Or does anyone come up with possible proposal so that Adobe can be persuaded? I appreciate your help. They claim that integrity of the CMap files is the main issue. Would it be possible for them to release an unsupported fork of the CMap files under a different, more liberal license? In this way the official, supported CMap files would be unaltered, and there would be a product with a free license that would likely be equivalent to Adobe's (though with no guarantees). -- Tarrío (Compostela)
Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works? -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works? Glancing at them... probably not. This is sweat-of-the-brow stuff. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:10:52PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works? Glancing at them... probably not. This is sweat-of-the-brow stuff. Adobe is probably busy lobbying to get a certain bill passed which will rectify that little defect in U.S. copyright law. http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2item=2857 -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will [EMAIL PROTECTED] | happen. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bob Church signature.asc Description: Digital signature
