Greek (graphis) Fonts and Patents + UTF8 Greek

[Fanis Dokianakis]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:12:14AM +0200, zakinthinos at hellug.gr wrote:
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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
> 
>
Ayto pou enoei o mharris einai oti yparhei provlima me ta
--> Trademark <--  ths Agfa Monotype, ta onomata twn fonts dhladh.

www.agfamonotype.com kai tha deite arketes plhfories gia ta font names
pou einai trademark ths monotype ( giorgo monotype eprepe na psajeis ).

Gnwsta fonts ths monotype einai ta Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New,
Impact, Symbol.

Mia profanhs lysh einai na ginoun repackaged ta fonts me diaforetika
kai prwtotypa onomata.

Fanis