On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:17:37 +0100 Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The web page for them says "I do not claim any rights to the original > raster fonts on which this work is based", and "They are exact > duplicates of the original pixel fonts", and "The extra characters > were taken from international versions of the original hardware (if > available)". > > It seems a bit of a stretch for someone who has converted them to > TTF to claim full copyright on them. Undoubtedly they have done a lot > of work sourcing, converting and designing missing international > characters, but it all feels like a derived work which would still > be subject to the original copyright which presumably would be owned > by companies like IBM and ATI. > > None of this prevents them from going to ports with appropriate > PERMIT_* settings... I'm not interested in the whole copyright stuff behind the author's side. He ripped these fonts, converted them and sometimes even redrawn them completely (adding Unicode pages, for example). There's no point in disccusing "that was based on some IBM PS/2 9000 Plus ROM font manufactured 35 years ago! It's copyrighted!". No, it isn't. I'm not distributing ROM images of character generator from these machines and nobody should do. That's was an author's problem to obtain them, and we're discussing the final product, which is in fact licensed on CC-BY-SA license. So, IMHO it should retain its PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM variable as is. > > But there's an idea to add them lately as "console fonts" when > > fcambus@ is done with his pcvt work to remove that ugly > > Sun-lookalike default font. We'll see. > > ...but I think there's about zero chance of them going in the kernel > as console fonts. > There's no way to put them in standard distribution, of course (or, is there…?). I meant adding them as a separate port containing the bitmap data. Attached an updated port, added myself as a maintainer, fixed spacing and portcheck warnings.
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