Re: Licence Question for ttf fonts

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the United States and many other places, copyright registrations are > allowed for typefaces only under very limited circumstances. However, a program that spells out how to draw a typeface can be placed under copyright without any doubt at all.

Re: Licence Question for ttf fonts

2001-12-15 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:28:53PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > > [...] > > copyright: > --- > Larabie Fonts End-user license agreement software product from Larabie Fonts > --- > > [...] > If you keep the fonts as th

Re: Licence Question for ttf fonts

2001-12-15 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 06:00:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:28:53PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > > The biggest Problem is the sentence "The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed, > > not sold." i think. > > This is a legal fiction -- though it happens to be one that eve

Re: Licence Question for ttf fonts

2001-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:28:53PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > The biggest Problem is the sentence "The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed, > not sold." i think. This is a legal fiction -- though it happens to be one that even Free Software licensors attempt to use to their advantage -- so I don't th