Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Mar 22 2009 - 00:17:11 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:45:19 +0000
> Baybal Ni <nikulinpi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I thought the default font to be boring and there is my linux port of
>> terminus font.
>
> can you give some clarity of the copyrights around the terminus font?
> It'd nice to have pretty fonts.. but we need to make sure we're clear
> around the copyrights....
>

Yes, although in some jurisdictions bitmap fonts aren't copyrightable.
That included, at least at one point, the United States.

Either way, this isn't the best way to submit them... probably
submitting a PSF file to the kbd project would be a lot better.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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