Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

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Subject: Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files
From: Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:19:56 -0500
Message-id: <871xpilr37.fsf@aule.evenmere.org>
In-reply-to: <20040129131638.GA9243@trasno.net> (Jacobo Tarrio's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:16:38 +0100")
References: <20040114144214.00CF017C79@arcadia.airs.net> <D51CAD60-505E-11D8-8E31-00039375FDD0@adobe.com> <87wu7dpa88.wl%mhatta@po.airs.net> <20040129080606.78E71222EE6@mail.topstudio.co.jp> <20040129131638.GA9243@trasno.net>

The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii
mapping is not copyrightable.  It's just a sequence of characters, as
valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption.

Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works?

-Brian

-- 
Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu

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