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

2009-09-22 Thread Ken Lunde
Hi, I apologize for digging up this nearly six-year-old email, but I wanted to let you know that we just launched the "CMap Resources" open source project, which includes all of our CMap resources under a more favorable open source license. See: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/

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
lar to those of GFDL with invariant cl. or RFC documents. - --- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:22:03 -0800 From: Ken Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files In-reply-to: <[

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

2004-01-27 Thread Ken Lunde
Hatta-san, I apologize for taking so long to reply to this request, but we needed sufficient time to carefully consider the request, and to think about the consequences, both good and bad. The short reply is that we shall decline this request, for reasons explained below. 1) We have been met