TFA's author is arguing that it seems to be possible to do this, but as a font-author he finds it disreputable (you have to read to the end). He's arguing, I th

TFA's author is arguing that it seems to be possible to do this, but as a font-author he finds it disreputable (you have to read to the end). He's arguing, I think, that fonts only became copyrightable when font files came along, with the arrival of PCs with GUIs. And that what became copyrightable was a font file. He argues that this is a weird anomaly; and I agree. But I draw a different conclusion; the introduction of copyright on font files was seriously annoying to me at the dawn of the PC age, because fonts were among the first digital objects that were copyrightable (that I had access to). With the exception of fonts, I could copy and re-purpose anything I found. I suspect fonts may have been the battering ram that led to the present situation of copyright maximalism. I don't mean to talk down the effort, judgement and skill that goes into creating a typeface; but I've never had much time for maximalists. I'd go back to author's lifetime, and I wouldn't allow immortal "persons" (corporations) to have copyrights.