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



On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> 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?

Glancing at them... probably not. This is sweat-of-the-brow stuff.

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