Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL
Package: ttf-freefont
Version: 20021016-2
Severity: serious
The package ttf-freefont is licensed under the GNU General Public
License, as listed in the appended debian/copyright file. I can confirm
this from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/COPYING .
Since ttf-freefont _does_ _not_ include the complete
corresponding machine-readable source code, nor does it have a
written offer, nor does it pass on information received; this package
and Debian is in violation of Section 3 of freefont's license.
I recommend that you immediately upload a package containing the
source SFD files to satisfy our licensing obligations. You should use
both http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/freefont-ttf.tar.gz
and http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/freefont-sfd.tar.gz to
construct the package.
--- BEGIN debian/copyright ---
This package was debianized by Peter Hawkins <peterh@debian.org> on
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:42:49 +1000.
It was downloaded from http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/
Upstream Author: Primoz Peterlin
Copyright:
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with
the Debian GNU/Linux ttf-freefont source package as the file COPYING. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
---- END debian/copyright ----
As well, the debian/copyright notice does not actually specify
the correct copyright statement. I suggest revising it thus:
--- BEGIN suggested debian/copyright ---
This package was debianized by Peter Hawkins <peterh@debian.org> on
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:42:49 +1000.
It was downloaded from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/
Upstream Maintainer: Primoz Peterlin <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
Copyright:
freefont is a collection of free Universal Character Set outline fonts.
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
---- END suggested debian/copyright ----
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