Hello. I'm currently trying to package some games for Fedora; since all of them come from one author, they share a lot of their dependencies. One of the dependencies if the "Perfect DOS VGA 437" font. While there's no licence explicitly stated, I wrote an e-mail to the author and he responded that "the font is free to use for any purpose. No crediting needed either. Feel free to use it." However, there's a different issue I want to ask about. The 2003 blog post where the author describes the process behind creating the font says: >So I fired up QuickBasic (!), created a quick program to display >all 255 characters directly on screen, and captured the screen >using Screen Thief, a classic DOS image grabbing software that >accompanied me for ages (it was mainly created to capture game >screens on DOS, but it did capture text screens on graphic format). As such, I wonder - could this font be seen as infringing copyright, and thus, not suitable for inclusion in Fedora? Full link to aforementioned blog post: http://zehfernando.com/2003/flash-ansi-viewer-and-reflections-on-flash-speed/ Thank you for your time, A.I. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
