Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?

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Subject: Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:34:39 -0700
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Joe Wreschnig wrote

2) The Bitstream font license is questionable; it certainly doesn't fit with the rest of the Pygame license (LGPL) very well.

Font license? Aren't fonts exempt from US copyright, regardless of font writers' claims to the contrary?

e.g. http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/26/can_you_copyright_a_.html

-Jasper

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- [pygame] 1.7 releases?
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- Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?
  - From: Joe Wreschnig