On 2017/06/25 00:10, Jakub Skrzypnik wrote: > 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.
That is ridiculous. You can't steal someone's copyrighted artwork and get around the law by repackaging and distributing it in a different format. Also it isn't about *you* distributing it, it's about OpenBSD distributing it.
