Re: [tlug] Pretty Japanese fonts?

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Hideki Yamane wrote:

>  Maybe yes, most of them say "You cannot use this font for evil use"
>  in those license. But they don't realize that real evil persons don't 
>  care about the license ;-) So it just restricts us - distributions' 
>  package maintainers.
>
>  And Japanese fonts creators just don't know about FLOSS licenses.
>  They create their own font license - by copying from other fonts 
>  licenses and modify it.

Then, on the other hand, you have the case where people make 
assumptions about a license without actually reading it. When the 
Creative Commons licenses first came out, I applied it to many of my 
online documents, and soon found those documents appearing around the 
web in formats that directly contravened the stipulations of the 
license. For these people, the word "Creative Commons" itself simply 
meant "anything goes." After going through the trouble of getting most 
of these illegal usages (but not all) corrected, I went back to plain 
old copyright notices, which people seem to understand much better.

Chuck


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