Re: gEDA-user: More footprint stuff

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 26.01.2005 um 22:07 schrieb Marvin Dickens:

> I don't think that this is an issue. If it were, artwork produced 
> using GIMP
> would be GPL'ed and for sure, there is lots of art work on the WWW that
> that was produced using GIMP and it's not GPL'ed. After all of these 
> years,
> someone would have challenged it if they could. The GIMP web site 
> talks about
> this very issue and says that the GIMP is GPL'ed your art work made 
> with
> GIMP is not and belongs to whoever made it.

Does gimp include any library of artwork like the symbol libs of gschen 
or geda?

> The GPL'ed font thing is interesting. Even so, I have serious doubts 
> regarding
> documents produced with GPL'ed fonts being automatically GPL'ed. If 
> this were
> true, documents produced with MS fonts would be the property of MS and 
> so
> on and so forth.

This would depend on the licence. If the ölicense tays: You are free to 
produce anything using these fonts, everything is fine. The GPL is 
special in this case, as is forces special contranints onto the license 
of derived work.

>  Further, fonts are used to express an idea on paper. They
> had no hand in the originality of the thought (Or lack of 
> originality...).
> Further, the use of a font in a document cannot be seen as a derived 
> work
> of the font: The font never changed.

Argumenting this way, using a library would not produce derived work, 
since you do not change the library, too.

> The font only expressed the idea.

A font is art, just like photos, pictures, music or litrature usually 
are.

> Just
> like lines drawn with GIMP express the idea - they do not make the 
> idea.

A line on GIMP is the output of some piece of code, that draws a 
straigt line described by mathematical equations.

> A
> font is a finished work - its a glyph that expresses a particular 
> sound or
> sounds used in human speech (Regardless of language).

What is a finished work? What is the difference between a set of glyphs 
and a poem?

> The shape, lines, kerning and etc... of the font are what is 
> copyrightable.
> Nothing more.

Of course, and you create a copy of the shape every time you print out 
a character. So it is up to the license of that font to allow you to do 
so. GPL would not allow you to use a font to print non GPLed work.

73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch                                           mario@xxxxxxxxxx
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