Re: gEDA-dev: Rant on GPL confussion in regards to geda symbols

[Steve Meier <smeier-at-NOSPAMalchemyresearch_dot_com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:06 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> Yeah, perhaps somebody can take the time to look at how OO Writer
> fonts are licensed?  I can do that during lunch, I guess.....

The use of a font can not be copyrighted under US law.

Under US Copyright law (which are the laws that apply to me). Copyright
law of 1988. The use of Typefaces (fonts) in the ordinary course of
typing, composing text, typesetting or printing is not an infringment of
the copyright.

No license can exceed the authority of the law under which it is based.

But is a schematic symbol a font? I don't think so. So it can be
copyrighted and its use restricted.

Steve Meier



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