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Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?



On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> The problem is that it is hard to associate a name to a font.  In Debian we
> have the copyright file, but elsewhere there is no such requirement.  This is
> why digital artworks often have the name signed in a way that makes removing it
> likely to mar the art as well as watermarking.

Er, AIUI, entirely removing copyright notices from a work is infringment
under U.S. copyright law.

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