Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-11 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Dylan Thurston wrote: On 2003-10-08, Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, it is very unlikely that TYPEBANK Co. will win a lawsuit in any country. After all, similarity is not implies derivative work. But it is very likely that they will threaten, harass

Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 02:20 US/Eastern, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: No, the list includes outline fonts. These outline fonts adopt TYPEBANK font as a starting point of desigining. In the US, the font itself (the idea of the shape of the characters, their spacing, etc.) can't be

Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, (I don't subscribe debian-legal. I just read the thread via http://lists.debian.org/ web interface.) Are these all bitmap fonts, then? No, the list includes outline fonts. These outline fonts adopt TYPEBANK font as a starting point of desigining. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-08 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:59:22AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: As a result of KANOU's investigation, LABO123 32-dot font is same as the bitmap font (TYPEBANK Mincho M) that was developed by TYPEBANK Co., Are these all bitmap fonts, then? In some

Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-08 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-10-08, Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, it is very unlikely that TYPEBANK Co. will win a lawsuit in any country. After all, similarity is not implies derivative work. But it is very likely that they will threaten, harass and terrorize everyyone who will ever

Re: Japanese font license problem

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:59:22AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: As a result of KANOU's investigation, LABO123 32-dot font is same as the bitmap font (TYPEBANK Mincho M) that was developed by TYPEBANK Co., Are these all bitmap fonts, then? In some countries (notably the US), copyright does not

Japanese font license problem

2003-10-06 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, I sent this announce to debian-devel yesterday, but send again for discussing this issue (thanks your advice, Branden). I've already sent BTS to each package maintainers. Thanks, -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear, Debian JP Project reports to Debian Project about