Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-02-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 29, 2004, at 21:31, Branden Robinson wrote: Adobe is probably busy "lobbying" to get a certain bill passed which will rectify that little "defect" in U.S. copyright law. If the Court has any shred of basic literacy left in reading the Constitution, that should go nowhere. Not sure at t

Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:10:52PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > > The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii > > mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as > > valid as a

Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii > mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as > valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. > > Are these CMa

Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works? -Brian -- Brian Sniffen

Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 29 de Xaneiro de 2004 ás 17:06:06 +0900, Kenshi Muto escribía: > Do you have any idea to cope with this situation? Or does anyone come > up with possible proposal so that Adobe can be persuaded? I > appreciate your help. They claim that integrity of the CMap files is the main issue. W

Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Masayuki Hatta and some of Japanese are considering how to treat Adobe CMap files. CMap is very important for CJK Ghostscript/PDF, but is non-free on Debian because this license says 'not altered'. Hatta has asked to Adobe has responsibility