On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Richard Braakman writes: > > But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? > > /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt, which I assume is the file > you are talking about, contains just a table of data. Unless its creation > involved creativity rather than just "sweat of the brow" it is not > protected by copyright.
A similar discussion might apply to the CMap files in /usr/share/fonts/cmap provided by cmap-adobe-japan1, etc. These have an Adobe copyright and license preventing modification, but the actual contents are just: 33 begincidrange <0000> <00ff> 0 <0100> <01ff> 256 <0200> <02ff> 512 <0300> <03ff> 768 <0400> <04ff> 1024 <0500> <05ff> 1280 <0600> <06ff> 1536 <0700> <07ff> 1792 <0800> <08ff> 2048 <0900> <09ff> 2304 etc Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
