Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:43:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Licensing on syscons fonts Message-ID: <19990413164307.A11748@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <19990413224612.A15371@keltia.freenix.fr>; from "Ollivier Robert" on Tue Apr 13 22:46:12 GMT 1999 References: <19990413074538.A10790@keltia.freenix.fr> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904131927100.415-100000@vmunix.psn.ie> <19990413224612.A15371@keltia.freenix.fr>
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In the last episode (Apr 13), Ollivier Robert said:
> According to Andy Doran:
> > This'd be nice. It seens that I cannot use the 'iso8x16.fnt' due to
> > licensing concerns at this end (NetBSD).
>
> what is the best way to put a notice on these font files ? Inside
> INDEX.fonts ? In a separate README.thin file ? In a generic README file ?
It looks like the decode() function that vidcontrol uses to read the
font files will ignore any text before "^begin ":
do {
if (!fgets(temp, sizeof(temp), fd))
return(0);
} while (strncmp(temp, "begin ", 6));
So you could probably just put the copyright message in the .fnt files
themselves.
You can put a standard BSD-style font on swiss-8x8.fnt and
swiss-8x16.fnt if you want, since I created those.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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