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Re: Two large groups of non-free fonts in main.



On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:22:40AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:36, Terry Hancock wrote:
> 
> > Do you mean by this that the US Copyright office does not recognize bitmap 
> > fonts as "copyrightable work"?  (If so, this would be good to know).
> 
> The copyright office does not recognize fonts, period, as a
> copyrightable work.

Worth pointing out also that whatever the US or any other jurisdiction
recognises as copyright, Debian tries in general to respect the wishes
of the creator regardless.


Cheers,


Nick
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Nick Phillips -- nwp@lemon-computing.com
Be careful!  Is it classified?



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