On Sat, Oct 21, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The document at http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/osteuropa1.pdf > > indicates that "Benjamin Gothic Regular" is actually a counterfeit Adobe > > Benguiat Gothic created in 1994 by the company "Mon Ami". The company > > since went out of business following the assassination of its leader. > > Er... doesn't this document also claim that Arial is a counterfeit Helvetica > font?
Well, it says that Arial is a modified version of Helvetica (which it is, only a few glyphs such as G, R, a... changed in the first versions of Arial). According to the document the Mon Ami fonts only forged the copyright notice (and made sure that all Eastern European glyphs were available, but they do not indicate whether this involved glyph creation). The document's later point is that if Mon Ami infriges on Adobe's copyright, then Adobe infriges on Monotype's or Max Miedinger's. Which is probably true but irrelevant. > If I'm reading this correctly, it doesn't appear to be a very > credible claim that there's anything wrong with the Mon Ami fonts either... > It would seem to establish at least a copyright /trail/, that should be > addressed in debian/copyright, but still does not yet demonstrate a DFSG > violation. Well, I won't spend $20 on Benguiat Gothic just to prove that all the glyphs are programmatically the same. They already do look exactly the same (see http://www.infinitype.com/samp/BenjaminGothic-Book.htm and http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/itc-benguiat-gothic/). And given its purpose in the package, the font can just be replaced with one of the free ones available in Debian. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
