on 7/7/00 12:05 PM, Duane Maxwell at dmaxwell at exobox.com wrote:

> Obviously there needs to be some lawyer-work on this.  As written, the
> intent is at best unclear.
> 
> One way to protect them to some degree is for someone to convert the fonts
> to StrikeFonts and deploy those rather than the original Windows files.  At
> least there would be some barrier, in that someone would have to write code
> to convert them back - which Bob Arning can do in about 20 seconds, but is
> probably a more substantial effort for your average font pirate :)
> 
> Do you think that he might be open to release of conversions of his fonts
> under an unmodified Squeak license?  This seems to me to be the ideal
> solution.
> 
> -- Duane
> 

Well I said we wanted to embed them in the Squeak image, and not have them
as separate files, however that is done. I've not really peered over the
fence so to speak and fully understood how fonts are contained, rendered and
the like within a Squeak image? In the left hand I have some windows font
files, in the right I just want to replace NewYork and allow you to pick
monaco or geneva etc.

I think you've a vested interest in ensuring you've a good set of fonts to
pick from but not be in violation of a license ... So if some of your
lawyers have some slack time...

Then again isn't there a font licence for X11 fonts somewhere?

--
===========================================================================
John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> 1-800-477-2659
Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.  http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
===========================================================================
Custom Macintosh programming & various Smalltalk dialects
PGP Key: DSS/Diff/46FC3BE6
Fingerprint=B22F 7D67 92B7 5D52 72D7  E94A EE69 2D21 46FC 3BE6
===========================================================================