On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:00:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > of course it is, but people do it all the time. To code, to art, to > practically anything. "Hey I got this off the Net it must be free". > > My point was that we have a policy requiring the copyright to be included in a > known place. Not all dists follow this and not all packagers for them do a > good job of it. Beyond that file sharing is quite common and people do not > often give the copyright with the work. I don't think encouraging digital watermarks is a necessary strategy. Every font file format with which I am familiar permits inclusion of copyright data. Even simple ones like BDF, which, being capable of representing only bitmaps, you can't assert copyright on anyway. -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the Debian GNU/Linux | long road from capitalism to branden@debian.org | capitalism. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Russian saying
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