How is selling a derivative work that adds further restrictions to my rights a perfect embodiment of free software principles?
Or are you saying it is not a derivative work? Is the font original because of the way it is now encoded digitally? I guess ebooks are actually original works as well then, because of the way their content is encoded. Who new Amazon has so many great in house writers?
You are incorrect, and are mixing patents and copyright
SCO was a copyright claim. Firstly they claimed that Linux was copied from Unix, then they claimed that they owned UNIX copyright.
MPEG-LA is not claiming any copyright over anyone. They are not claiming ownership of x264. However, they WILL claim that any open source implementation of h263 encoder or decoder infringes on their held patents.
One Linux company has already lost a patent case. Tom Tom lost to Microsoft because of FAT patents.
Wait, so you're saying Apple is keeping Flash off the iPhone to actually protect FLASH developers?
*head explodes*
Font files are essentially code executed by a rasterizer, and the code is copyrighted by Adobe.
So far not Project Gutenburg or Mutopia for typefaces just yet.
I should rephrase. Nothing is gained by using IPA instead of audio signatures because they represent the same context. Think of an IPA character as essentially an audio signature.
Translating to IPA doesn't move you any closer to translating to your target script.
Concepts != language
You do not use any language structures (syntactic, phonological,semantic) in your life that an average 5-7 yr child has not already acquired. This is established in pretty much all literature on language acquisition.
After all, there is a lot that biomedical scientists talk about that I don't understand at all. Still, my language faculty remains intact.
Yeah, but I can distribute the copies I buy off him any way I like.
I can't do with Adobe fonts.
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Well Soccer Mom's should care what other countries do if other countries don't enforce the
Hiding away good old Apple Pie American porn while letting the dirty Eurotrash variety pass through seems a bit stupid, doesn't it?
That's because those sites have a self-motivated reason to attach to those domains.
The rules around
Cool, so if you put it up for free, you don't need the
Only the uneducated parent.
There are responsible porn sites that play nice with filters and have entry pages without explicit conent. Then there are other sites which are not so charitable. The sites that play nice will always play nice, and the sites that don't will still be sneaky.
Anyway, when was the last time you randomly stumbled upon some porn? You have more of a chance seeing boobs at a football game than through Googling for your class assignment.
Except that before the web there WERE a variety of fonts.
There wasn't one particular font called "newspaper". And newspapers and books all used different fonts for various reasons.
What's a amazing is that so many of the fonts are basically just re-creations of typefaces that are certainly out of copyright.
The original "Calson" font mentioned in the article is at least 200 hundred years old, yet there are a number of Calson offering, like from Adobe, costing some $45 bucks.
Sounds like the "open source software is just for hobbyist" argument.
If free fonts are crap, that just means that the "free-model" hasn't yet taken hold in font design, or that no one is really that interested in fonts.
There are plenty of free things of high quality that are ridiculously more complex than fonts. An operating system kernel for one.
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