I didn't get you... What exactly you want to say?
Ref: hr software
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hr software
I believe nearly everyone else on these forums holds the same viewpoint as in
the second quotation.
Kewl!
Faith based computing.
I can't tell if you're saying we shouldn't do this or we don't need to
worry about getting sued, so I'll answer both.
Actually I was writing about how you should not do that out of decency. I
couldn't care less if you get sued or not. It might sound cold, but apart
from people who do get
I don't get you. Really.
So somebody did some work. And that person does not want you or anybody else
to use that particular piece of work.
One could have justified some ten years ago by being a poor student in a poor
country. And it used to be really hard to argue against.
But what is
I can't tell if you're saying we shouldn't do this or we don't need to
worry about getting sued, so I'll answer both.
If you're saying I shouldn't risk violating their copyrights by doing this,
you should head over to pretty much every reverse engineering project in
existence and let them
Technically possible and legal in the U.S. because font faces can't be
copyrighted here (not so for some other countries, like the U.K.). Might
result in a loss of quality if it's not done carefully, though.
You can do it losslessly!
I happen to have considered this myself, and I've even done it with a few
chess fonts. However, I had obtain permission from the creator of one, who
had licensed it for non-commercial use only.
What you would do is make a drawing in Inkscape using all the font's
However, I had obtain permission from the creator of one, who had licensed
it for non-commercial use only.
Is the law different in Canada than in the U.S.?
I imagine that if we started doing this en masse, the foundries would
complain and sue us.
What for? I've never purchased a font, so
It had nothing to do with the laws of Canada. The license restricted
commercial use, so I presumed that would apply to the images created with the
font.
The last the author of FontForge, George Williams, checked, in Canada the
design of fonts can be protected for five years. I believe
On the contrary, most proprietary foundries now offer web embedding.
However, now that I think about it, I think it's more like a video game with
a free engine but proprietary art. You can always use the CSS rules to find
the font file and copy it, and then use FontForge to convert it to a
they - who?
Given that fonts are software, should I disable websites' ability to use font
embedding, in case they use non-free fonts?
Not based on licence. But you can disable font downloading.
That would be sensible, though in practice I think they tend to use
free/libre fonts for this.
Here's something that could be interesting for you too
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL
@armworm
a) Was your question a philosophical one?
b) Was your question to know how are treated/licensed in Trisquel community?
or
c) Was your question to add arguments to make your mind to decide if they are
software o not?
I thought you were asking in philosophical way but everyone is
My question was to add arguments to make up my mind to decide whether they
are software or not. I believe that means I was asking philosophically.
I haven't really been following the discussion since I was convinced (fonts
are works of practical use and need to carry the freedoms of
More related thing of this are on:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-do-i-add-articles-and-blog-posts-trisquel-blog
@antiesnob:
Of course you are free to choose the meaning of the word software on your
own, but there arises a serious problem:
In this community, people refer to - what you call - proprietary programs
whenever they hear proprietary software.
So we're talking about different things.
If we
That's true (about the fight). Moreover, it is funny to see the word for
(as I wrote below) or to or (as you wrote above) according. This makes
reference to a person or gruop of persons who gives their thumbs up on an
issue. I mean for me it is not (for me... I accept that); or to the US
Fonts ARE software. I think the question is. Are fonts programs?
If it is not hardware, then it is software...
And fonts (for me) are not programs.
If a font is a program created to draw outlines, and therefore is a
software program that must be free, then what differentiates a font
file from a .ogg audio file, or a .jpg image? Would they not be
software, too? At first I scoffed, but it really got me thinking.
There are some differences:
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2013-December/031285.html
Why did they use Indiegogo? I've heard there is more success with
Kickstarter.
It's my campaign. I heard of Indiegogo before I'd heard of Kickstarter, and I
like Indiegogo's site layout better.
This question came to my mind while I was discussing my Free Clarendon
campaign with someone else. When I claimed that fonts are software, because
they are a program designed to draw the outlines, he countered with a
powerful point.
If a font is a program created to draw outlines, and
What are you talking about?
So anything in a computer thats not executable is not software?
Put it this way.
How do you even know that the font exists?
without linux and without an operating system you cant draw like your
saying, the font file right?
A font file is not a file that renders text.,
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