Notification of Copyright Violation

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Fab,

You claim that others are selling your 'free' package and making a profit off 
of your hard work but you fail to acknowledge that you are illegally using font 
code developed by Kaonohi Kai and XenoType Technologies. I suspect you are the 
same person I've emailed under a different name on a different web site. You 
are hereby notified that you are in violation of copyright infringement. The 
tables you provide in the core system fonts (arialuni.ttf, Helvetica and 
Helvetica Bold) are copied directly from my commercial retail package (Khmer 
Language Kit). Previously, you were using my font outlines AND the tables. I 
see that you have chosen to replace my outlines to obscure the fact that you 
are using my font code illegally but the fact remains that that code was 
created by me and is wholly owned by me. Your use of it is a violation of the 
original software license that accompanied the font you stole it from. A 
complaint has been filed with Google under DMCA. Remove access to all such 
fonts immediately or remove the font code within the individual fonts.

Kaonohi Kai
Owner
XenoType Technologies
PO BOX 424
Kailua, HI 96734
dkai at xenotypetech dot com

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kaon...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 7:52

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For your information. I do not claim anything, and if people sale this 
packages, I do not have any knowledge of. 
I do not make this for the money. I never claim anywhere any hard work on my 
side.
I only share some knowledge for iPhone khmer community.
I do not run other web site. I'm busy enough in my life. 
I never received email so far from anybody concerning this matters.

For your information, the font was found on internet on another web site, for 
Mac OS X. I had no knowledge what so ever that this font was commercial.
Now that I receive your notification, I then remove the font from this web site.

Original comment by fabkk2...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 10:46

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Original comment by fabkk2...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 10:48

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Could you please inform me of the so called others web sites ? As I plan to try 
to find other fonts (free), I would not like to include another copyrighted 
font from your company without knowing.

Original comment by fabkk2...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 4:24

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Original comment by fabkk2...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 6:33

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First, thank you for responding so quickly. Second, please accept my apologies 
if you are not the same person I have dealt with in the past on other websites 
- it is not always possible to tell who's really behind any given website or 
project. To my knowledge, there are no free Khmer fonts that will work with iOS 
or OS X other than ones that I have created and ones that steal my code. There 
are perhaps a half dozen fonts that claim to work properly with OS X and they 
do, but they all use proprietary code that I developed. I cannot tell you which 
fonts contain my code as they keep changing the names or the visual appearance 
of the fonts but to date, they all are in violation. As I find out about them, 
I request that they be removed.

For those people who would like to use their iPhone/iPod in Khmer, I understand 
this desire but my fonts and the font code that makes them work took many 
months to develop, I simply cannot afford to give them away. I am however open 
to requests and other possible solutions including releasing the tables for 
this type of project exclusively. To date, nobody has ever asked permission - 
they simply steal.

Original comment by kaon...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2010 at 4:40

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sorry to interupt this matter, but as for your hard work (kaonohi) in 
developing khmer font to be compatable with iOS or OS X, you should have a 
right to claim for your copy right, and i do a gree. but as for long month  the 
iPhone user including me, they are very happy with the great technology that 
allow them to see and write khmer on the iPhone, seem so be proud to us, but 
before that us all never know that this font was be stolen or illegal using, 
but we are very appreciate the one who was created them like fabkk2002, he 
really give us a hope and so proud, 
So as for my own idea ( 90% of khmer iphone user ) would like you to give him a 
right to use your font because of your font very nice and so easy to use. and 
other hand he package was use for free of charge so mean that he just give us a 
chance to see khmer in iphone without charge any thing, so mean that he not 
used your font for profite he use for knowledge and develop the khmer unity.

So as for this I hope you will understand and give us a chance to see your font 
on our iDevice again.

Original comment by bcprat...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2010 at 1:50

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in my opinion I think that Apple already paid to all owners of all fonts using 
in iPhone and iPhone's owner can send the font of their iPhone to fabkk2002 to 
add khmer font and send it back to them

Original comment by savokli...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 10:04

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I'm not sure you understand the situation savoklinux. First of all, Apple does 
not include Khmer in any system font and that's because they haven't paid for 
the rights or chosen an open-source font for that purpose. So no, you can't 
just add whatever characters you want to the iPhone/iPod/iPad - you need to 
make sure that the license for the font allows you to do that. Second, even if 
a font contains the necessary characters for a given language (Khmer, Tamil, 
whatever), there still needs to be code that tells the OS how to display the 
characters correctly. As you know, with Khmer, you can't just type Khmer 
characters and have it make sense. That's why most Khmer fonts don't work 
correctly under Unicode (i.e., Mac OS X, the iPhone, etc.).

What i have developed are two different things - fonts AND the code to make 
Khmer display correctly. Several websites are using my fonts AND my code, other 
websites offer different fonts (sometimes open-source, sometimes not) WITH my 
code. My fonts are not public domain, nor is my font code. I spent nearly two 
years developing that code long before anybody else was even trying to. I'm 
simply not in a position to just give it away. That's why I asked fabkk2002 to 
remove my code (which would then make the fonts inoperable). He responded 
quickly and I believe he understands my situation. We have been emailing each 
other in an attempt to find a solution that works for everyone.

I am open to some suggestions from users like yourself but it can't just be me 
giving away my intellectual property -- that defeats the purpose of having a 
company that specializes in this type of thing for the past 20 years.

Original comment by kaon...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 10:26

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Now is starting Khmer hurt Khmer again... why khmer cannot help khmer for 
develop any belong to our khmer... steal someone property is illegal. but 
actually khmer fonts in iphone is already used by every people in Cambodia for 
the previous version. in fact, we are so happy to be able use it and so proud 
to have it in our iphone. now problem occured and destroy any hope for iphone 
4. if that, why u don't make contact with fabkk2002? why don't try to make 
donations request if khmer people wanna use your fonts on iphone? and I beleive 
everyone who wanna use it will make u a donation.. so we can be happy both for 
u who developed font and every khmer people who can use it on their iphone... 
thanks!

Original comment by meybora...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 3:30

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Yeah I do agrea, if your font is commercial in using so please open mind by 
making donations options, for us who care too much to using khmer on iPhone,

Original comment by bcprat...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2010 at 2:01

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Hi! Mr. Fab! so will u release khmer keyboard for khmer people to use? 

Original comment by meybora...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2010 at 7:01