RE: COPYLEFT SIGN

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 13:49:04 EDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT Michael Everson [mailto:everson@egt.ie]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: COPYLEFT SIGN
>
>
> Ar 06:52 -0800 2000-05-16, scríobh jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com:
> >For what it's worth and as if this were a vote conducted on
> this mailing
> >list, I don't like the idea of adding the copyleft sign.
> Whatever the moral
> >or philosophical grounding, it's still a logo.
>
> Is it? I thought it was used as a replacement so strings like:

Yes, it is. A "logo" does not (only) indicate, for example, "a registered
thingie
of a commercial entity, say, rendered in a certain font" (e.g. IBM). It's
simply
an identifying sign/phrase/whatever.
 
> ©1999 Michael Everson. All rights reserved.
>
> become
>
> ()) Michael Everson. No rights reserved.

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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>



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