From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 23:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6239937B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08438; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:54:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418005020.045fc930@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:54:02 -0600 To: Mike Meyer From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: banner(6) Cc: Mike Meyer , Rahul Siddharthan , James Howard , Joseph Mallett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15069.5732.677255.857589@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417124854.04560b30@localhost> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:21 PM 4/17/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >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. That's not correct. Fonts do not "produce" typefaces. They are renderings of typefaces. >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. It is possible to do a knockoff, and many people do. But what's being copied is the uncopyrightable design. If you copy the program that renders the typeface into a font, you've infringed a copyright. This has been upheld in court. Adobe's "fonts" (which are really programs that render typefaces into fonts) are copyrightable. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message