From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 21:22:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 010CD37B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 8009 invoked by uid 100); 18 Apr 2001 04:21:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15069.5732.677255.857589@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:21:56 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , Rahul Siddharthan , James Howard , Joseph Mallett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417124854.04560b30@localhost> References: <20010417095140.A74385@lpt.ens.fr> <20010416191256.R27477@lpt.ens.fr> <20010416193151.U27477@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010416211727.045766e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010417124854.04560b30@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 03:37 AM 4/17/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >While I'm on the topic: another point of similarity between the two > >types of fonts is that they, unlike typefaces, are protected as > >intellectual property. > The names of typefaces can be (and are) trademarked. While typeface > designs are considered to be utilitarian and therefore are not > protected by copyright, programs that draw them are. Since Adobe's > "fonts" (which are really not fonts but programs to render them) > are actually programs, they are subject to copyright protection. That's pretty much just what I said. Fonts - whether programs or actual bits of metal - have copyright protection. Typefaces - in the form of what the fonts produce - do not. Than names can be trademarked, which is why the disks of ripped off fonts sold commercially tend to have names like "Garnet" instead of "Garamond". The end result is the same - someone does a bunch of creative work, drawing designs for a typeface, then repeating the process at various different point sizes so they all have the same color. Then anyone who wants can sell - or give away - knockoffs capitalizing on their work without compensating them in any way. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message