linux-kernel - Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer

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Message-ID: <49C5BAB3.1080107@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:12:35 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Baybal Ni <nikulinpi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:45:19 +0000
> Baybal Ni <nikulinpi@...il.com> 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

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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