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   What are these "scanned type speciman images" and where are
   they coming from.

From type specimen books that are either uncopyrighted, or of specimens
that are pre-1900 or maybe early 20th century.

In any case, the original images are not being distributed as the fonts;
and the eventual fonts that are made from them will doubtless be
considerably different.

However, while this might or might not assuage your concerns, I think
there is a fundamental difference of opinion (I just had this discussion
on comp.fonts):

    I certainly hope that the Gnu project is not stealing fonts

What you call ``stealing'' is exactly what the GNU project hopes to make
widespread -- stealing, copying, making information available for others
to use, modify, and pass on.

Specifically, speaking about the United States, and bitmap fonts: While
it's illegal to copy software (unless it comes with a license permitting
you to do so), it's not illegal to copy bitmaps.  It would be silly for
us to agree that it was somehow ``wrong'' to copy bitmaps, when we hope
that it will become legal to copy (steal, in your word) software!

I don't expect most, or even many, people reading this to share my
views.  And this is not the right newsgroup for a discussion of the FSF
and its goals (use gnu.misc.discuss for that).
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karl@cs.umb.edu
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