On 13-Oct-2001 Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> The problem is that it is hard to associate a name to a font. In Debian we >> have the copyright file, but elsewhere there is no such requirement. This >> is >> why digital artworks often have the name signed in a way that makes removing >> it >> likely to mar the art as well as watermarking. > > Er, AIUI, entirely removing copyright notices from a work is infringment > under U.S. copyright law. >
of course it is, but people do it all the time. To code, to art, to practically anything. "Hey I got this off the Net it must be free". My point was that we have a policy requiring the copyright to be included in a known place. Not all dists follow this and not all packagers for them do a good job of it. Beyond that file sharing is quite common and people do not often give the copyright with the work.
