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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       Klas Kalass <klas.kalass () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-11-28 18:35:06
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Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 19:15 schrieb Neil Stevens:
> On Thursday November 28, 2002 01:25, Oliver Bausinger wrote:
> > check http://corefonts.sourceforge.net
> > especially http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.html
>
> Thank you.
>
> Here's an interesting passage from eula.htm (note the lack of an l):
>
> "Limitations on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, and Disassembly. You
> may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT,
> except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by
> applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
>
> "Restrictions on Alteration. You may not rename, edit or create any
> derivative works from the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, other than subsetting when
> embedding them in documents."
>
> KDE can't rely upon this.  And if for some people the only way it works in
> KDE 3 is to install fonts like this, then it's broken.  What good are the
> almighty character set tables, if you still have to resort to a
> proprietary all-unicode font?
Please tell me:
What is so evil about the creator of a font who does not allow you to alter or 
rename that font? Creation of a font is a *huge* work and most importantly it 
is an art. You do not refuse to have a CD  because the creator of the artwork 
forbits you to alter it, do you?

Klas
 
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