On 2017/06/16 23:18, Jakub Skrzypnik wrote: > This time I ported (or, more precisely, "repackaged") the fonts from > Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack project. These are actually accurate
The web page for them says "I do not claim any rights to the original raster fonts on which this work is based", and "They are exact duplicates of the original pixel fonts", and "The extra characters were taken from international versions of the original hardware (if available)". It seems a bit of a stretch for someone who has converted them to TTF to claim full copyright on them. Undoubtedly they have done a lot of work sourcing, converting and designing missing international characters, but it all feels like a derived work which would still be subject to the original copyright which presumably would be owned by companies like IBM and ATI. None of this prevents them from going to ports with appropriate PERMIT_* settings... > But there's an idea to add them lately as "console fonts" when fcambus@ > is done with his pcvt work to remove that ugly Sun-lookalike > default font. We'll see. ...but I think there's about zero chance of them going in the kernel as console fonts.
