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Re: LICENSE of Adobe CMap files.



Scripsit Yasuhiro TAKE <take@debian.org>

> Well, i've heard that according to the International Copyright Law(or
> something like that), nothing is permitted unless explicitly declared
> as permitted in a license.

This rule of thumb only holds for actions that are actually protected.
Mere use of data is not protected and needs no permission (unless the
particular use can *also* be construed copying, that is).

-- 
Henning Makholm                     "However, the fact that the utterance by
                           Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the
           existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling."



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