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The shapes can't be copyrighted, apparently, but the bits that make up the digitalization can. IANAL, etc.
by akx 2y ago
The shapes can't be copyrighted, apparently, but the bits that make up the digitalization can. IANAL, etc.
- teddyh 2y agoBitmap fonts are not covered by copyright: <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf>, <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf> It is vector fonts, which can contain copyrightable code, which can be copyrighted.
- akx 2y agoSo it would seem. Thanks for digging those up. With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to e.g. TrueType hinting, or OpenType shaping (or very avant-gardely, WASM shaping)? I should hope the glyph-drawing instructions don't fall under this definition of code, because that'd maybe mean SVG `path`s are copyrightable...
- teddyh 2y ago> With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to What specifics you can get is all described in ML-443.