https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820642
Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> changed:
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--- Comment #26 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> A comment, which describes which file has which license is still missing:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/
> LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licensing_Scenarios
>
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > John Cowan from the FIGlet development team informed us that:
> >
> > "Bitmap fonts are in the public domain in the U.S., because they are
> > considered insufficiently creative to copyright. Specifically, the actual
> > *appearance* of a font cannot be copyrighted, and bitmaps are considered
> > just a trivial transformation of the appearance. Scalable fonts are
> > computer programs, though, and are copyrightable."
>
> According to that, the fonts should be "Public Domain" and that license is
> missing yet.
>
> Blocking FE-LEGAL to get clarification of the above and a "English" to
> "yes/no" translation...
> (More aabout that in comment #9 comment #20)
I would agree with John Cowan's assessment of the fact that non-scalable
"bitmap" fonts are not copyrightable in the United States and can safely be
treated as being in the Public Domain in Fedora.
Are all of these fonts clearly bitmap fonts and not scalable?
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