From: Raymond Mercier (rm459@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 10:28:29 CDT
>> This of course cheerfully ignores any claim to copyright in those
>> non-Unicode fonts.
Marnen Laibow-Koser writes
>
> Quite true. I do not think that the act of moving glyphs (unmodified) to
> different code points violates the *spirit* of copyright regulations, at
> least if one does not distribute or claim authorship of the resulting
> font. YMMV.
Of course the last proviso is the critical one, and is in fact hard to
honour, since if you make a font from someone else's glyph designs, and then
use it for your documents, this is but a short step from distributing it.
The intellectual property lies in the truetype strokes that make up the
glyph, so if it really is moved unmodified you run a greater risk of
violating the copyright than if you actually made serious changes.
But I stop there, since there is nothing worse than a lot of heavy-handed
moralising.
Regards
Raymond Mercier
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