Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:22:40AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:36, Terry Hancock wrote: Do you mean by this that the US Copyright office does not recognize bitmap fonts as copyrightable work? (If so, this

Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:36, Terry Hancock wrote: Do you mean by this that the US Copyright office does not recognize bitmap fonts as copyrightable work? (If so, this would be good to know). The copyright office does not recognize fonts, period, as a copyrightable work. However, it does

Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-24 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:22:40AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:36, Terry Hancock wrote: Do you mean by this that the US Copyright office does not recognize bitmap fonts as copyrightable work? (If so, this would be good to know). The copyright office does

Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 03:53, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: Note, while this is filed against xfonts-75dpi, Aren't those bitmap fonts? If so, there is no copyright in the US at least.

Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-18 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
Severity: serious Package: xfonts-75dpi Note, while this is filed against xfonts-75dpi, it affects several of the font packages generated from the xfree86 source package, feel free to reassign to another package. The two large groups in question are the Utopia (UT*) and the Lucida (lu*) fonts.

Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.

2002-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
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