Hello.
I'm currently trying to package some games for Fedora; since all of them come from one
author, they share a lot of their dependencies. One of the dependencies if the
"Perfect DOS VGA 437" font. While there's no licence explicitly stated, I
wrote an e-mail to the author and he responded that "the font is free to use for any
purpose. No crediting needed either. Feel free to use it."
However, there's a different issue I want to ask about. The 2003 blog post where the
author describes the process behind creating the font says:
So I fired up QuickBasic (!), created a quick program to display
all 255 characters directly on screen, and captured the screen
using Screen Thief, a classic DOS image grabbing software that
accompanied me for ages (it was mainly created to capture game
screens on DOS, but it did capture text screens on graphic format).
As such, I wonder - could this font be seen as infringing copyright, and thus, not
suitable for inclusion in Fedora?
Full link to aforementioned blog post:
http://zehfernando.com/2003/flash-ansi-viewer-and-reflections-on-flash-sp...
Thank you for your time,
A.I.