Greek (graphis) Fonts and Patents + UTF8 Greek

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Fonts
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Greek (graphis) Fonts and Patents + UTF8 Greek
Fonts 

Steve Stavropoulos steve at math.upatras.gr 
Fri Jan 17 17:10:02 2003 

=== [mharris] "Red Hat has been contacted by Agfa Monotype Corp. about
certain font modules distributed in Red Hat Linux, among other Linux
distributions, which Monotype believes infringe their copyrights.  These
font modules were prepared and initially made available as freely
distributable software by parties other than Red Hat.  Without
addressing the merits of the Monotype claims, but in deference to those
claims and in cooperation with Monotype's e
=== [mharris]  to protect their copyrighted materials, Red Hat has
agreed to remove the font modules in question from its distribution. 
This has been done with the distributions of Red Hat Linux available
from www.redhat.com."


 Synopsizontas, exoume dyo 8emata:
 1) Copyright sta iso8859-7 fonts pou exoume hdh
 
 
zakinthinos :
 
apo oti katalaveno i redhat den einai sigouri oti ontos i
agfa-monotype exei to copyright alla theli na apofigei
peripeteies.

vlepontas tin leksi "agfa" to mialo mou paei se
fotografikes mixanes - scanners kai ipotheto oti 
sxediasan ta arxika glyphs sto xeri kai meta ta 
eisigagan kat'euthian ston ipologisti.

ta fonts pou ksero oti einai poli xrisima kai prepei
na diasfalisoume:

http://graphis.hellug.gr/packages/el/develop.html
to arxeio xfntgr-1.0.tar.gz

http://www.cc.ece.ntua.gr/~pprok/greek-fonts.tar.gz
(gia ton ghostscript - printing)

me

xlsfonts -lll -fn -greek-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-7 
|grep COPYRIGHT

perno:

COPYRIGHT             Share and enjoy, <P.Christias at ntua.gr>, 1995.

sto idio font otan epsaksa gia "agfa" den vrika tipota..

giorgos tsimaras




giorgos tsimaras