[Hamish Moffatt]
> That Debian "expects that simply providing the source alongside ..."
> does not appear to make this non-free. It might make be inconvenient
> for us and/or require us to change the ftp-master scripts, but that
> doesn't seem to affect its freeness.
One must remember, however, t
About a year ago I was hacking on a curses CD player app (groovycd,
which is GPL) which features a large ascii-art numeral display. I
added the capability for multiple fonts, and converted a few Figlet
fonts[1] that look good there.
Trouble is I can't find a license statement for any of these fo
[Branden]
> Bitmapped fonts are not copyrightable in the United States.
Thanks. I guess you would know. (:
> Hinted fonts, because they contain what could be construed as
> algorithmic or programmatic constructs, are copyrightable.
As you guessed, Figlet fonts are quite primitive. They do hav
[Humberto Massa]
> > It had equated the two of them in the first part of the phrase.
[Raul Miller]
> The GPL did not use the word "equals".
> Neither "that is to say" nor "namely" are equal to "equals".
Are we to understand that your argument hinges on such fine semantic
distinctions as claimi
[Raul Miller]
> However, I can present my point of view without resorting to this argument:
...
> Does that make sense?
Much clearer, thanks. I was annoyed by the increasingly fine
hair-splitting - thanks for bringing the level back to the realm of the
meaningful.
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[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]
> It seem to me that they got in trouble for doing so. And then tried
> to "take things back". But the GPL doesn't allow for that.
It seems to me that this is another of those things everyone takes for
a postulate just because the FSF said so. Rather like the assumption
> > Yes, I'm aware that if it's possible to revoke the GPL, it fails
> > the Tentacles of Evil test, and GPL software would be completely
> > unsuitable for any serious deployment.
[Roberto C. Sanchez]
> But it can't be done, period.
>
> Reference: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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