Bug#694308: non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:55:48 +0100
Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
>If it is GPL-2+ it is not a problem but a few fonts file are released
>under GPL-2 only... It is quite a mess.
Yes... The best way to solve it is re-license those snippets to more
permissive license like BSD-3-clause or MIT by Adobe, but it costs for
them.
>> And, how can I think about fontforge copies snippet to generate those
>> *.pfb files?
>
>Could you modify comment on this code to add some fontforge comment ?
>Like for instance "inserted by fontforge (debian someversion)". I
>could teach lintian to check if font are regenerated.
>What do you think?
Probably I can, but is it necessary? Re-licensed to Apache-2.0 code is
exactly same as previous proprietary one, no changes. Just treat it as
DFSG-free code is enough, isn't it?
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Regards,
Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
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