From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI,
	RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Received: (qmail 26130 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2021 03:02:47 -0000
Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53)
  by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Feb 2021 03:02:47 -0000
Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112)
	id 3A3779C281; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:02:45 +1000 (AEST)
Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64D29503E;
	Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:02:31 +1000 (AEST)
Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112)
 id C69F79503E; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:02:29 +1000 (AEST)
Received: from minun.buric.co (minun.buric.co [51.15.8.196])
 by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4569F94F19
 for <tuhs@tuhs.org>; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:02:29 +1000 (AEST)
Received: by minun.buric.co (Postfix, from userid 1000)
 id EB70D35C0CA4; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:02:27 +0100 (CET)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by minun.buric.co (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61AB35C0BC5;
 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:02:27 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:02:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
X-X-Sender: mary@sd-119843.dedibox.fr
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tr=iNat7+YnBiso=sU6CYogiBaRrbpzpAmsuh_7geDnLg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2102102200580.19756@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>
References: <8b580c46-ecfb-9383-ed43-08108b3ee7bf@tllds.com>
 <CAC20D2M0FoFGTJbDPtsonuNhXmuLzr2sP_HzBGG7CN9hgGF2kw@mail.gmail.com>
 <20201130163753.GB18187@mcvoy.com>
 <CAC20D2Nxuff8eD1Q1UCK0TYCNH3w4fXiVSZYqfZzRr6vs269eA@mail.gmail.com>
 <m1l9wPq-0036x9C@more.local>
 <202102102236.11AMann01820861@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
 <CAKr6gn0qSLtnQ46f_dxXKTCo8TR9_+3sUtM6HC1n8k2rJEDqpg@mail.gmail.com>
 <em3e463dd7-fcad-4f96-842a-683d12f2216c@r1.local>
 <CAC20D2N=e+jBCvkqxShZ6Yw2E-RvgAj+kJi9YTr4s6Qiv_4_aw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAFH29toR4LEMHmcamA61L-paEWq69sz0dAu3fV9RSLkCT4Bvfg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKr6gn3B8ABU2r=ZatxF9ecxpckf0hVa_UpP63YfJLqcJ6nGJw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAFH29tr=iNat7+YnBiso=sU6CYogiBaRrbpzpAmsuh_7geDnLg@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command
 Language (1976))
X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26
Precedence: list
List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs.minnie.tuhs.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tuhs>,
 <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/>
List-Post: <mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
List-Help: <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tuhs>,
 <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=subscribe>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org
Sender: "TUHS" <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org>

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Richard Salz wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 9:04 PM George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
>
> Not sure of that, but there are other techniques to protect it, like
> patent, trademark, and trade secret.  Just like unpublished proprietary
> source code of AT&T, to coin a phrase.

I think you can't copyright the shapes, but you can copyright the vectors 
that generate them because they're technically code.

Something weird like that.

But that's how you can have all those knockoff fonts Bitstream did, and 
why a font like Book Antiqua was possible under US law.

-uso.