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How bad is the legal status of this web site?

• evook 9y ago
  Depends on your country I'd say. In mine not all.
• LeonM 9y ago
  I'm curious about this. Can anyone elaborate on this? I mean, the fonts on this site are >30 years old, so: - would it really be 'illegal' to share these files - would the copyright holders (say, IBM) have any reason to take a site like this down?
  • antientropic 9y ago
    Copyright terms are much longer than 30 years, so unfortunately, it's probably illegal without permission from the copyright holders. It's unlikely that they will take action, though.
  • pgeorgi 9y ago
    "It depends". In some jurisdictions typefaces aren't copyrightable, and bitmap fonts don't contain code (unlike TrueType & family)...
• ajenner 9y ago
  According to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ bitmap fonts are not copyrightable in the US, where the site is hosted.
• bluedino 9y ago
  It would be fairly simple to just publish some scripts that extract the font from your system. The 8x8 font is at F000:FA6Eh, and I think you can call interrupts to find the location of the others (it changes depending on the system). Then just dump that to a file and process those to whatever font format you want. I remember having a TSR that would let you change the DOS font to a few different options, it always looked cool and impressed my friends. I think it did a few other weird things like cycle the keyboard LEDs (caps, scroll, num lock) in patterns. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.pascal.borland/wgh9yxt_FhM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.pascal.bor...