DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"
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Hello,
I'd like an opinion about the DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public
License", included below. A utility normally shipped with X11, mkcfm,
was recently removed because the license was regarded non-free; this
statement seems to come from Xorg upstream, see their Bug#5553 [1].
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553
One can find this utility shipped in Sarge's version of the 'xutils'
package, and the full license included in its debian/copyright file,
which makes me think the license has been ruled to be DFSG-free in the
past.
I took a quick look myself and, although I saw a couple of potentially
problematic points, I'm more interested in -legal's assessment of whether
this license surpasses or not the limits that are being applied to main
nowadays.
Thanks in advance.
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Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
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