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[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#492623: marked as done (ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications)

Your message dated Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:37:16 +0200
with message-id <200807281137.17449.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#492623: ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications
has caused the Debian Bug report #492623,
regarding ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: ttf-liberation
Version: 1.04~beta2-2
Severity: important

Quoting the license:
    The "LIBERATION" trademark is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. in the U.S. and other
    countries. This agreement does not permit Client to distribute modified versions 
    of the Software using Red Hat's trademarks. If Client makes a redistribution of 
    a modified version of the Software, then Client must modify the files names to 
    remove any reference to the Red Hat trademarks and must not use the Red Hat 
    trademarks in any way to reference or promote the modified Software.

If you modify the files, you must
 - Rename the fonts to remove any reference to Liberation
 - Not install the fonts as liberation
 - Rename the binary package and the source package
 - Change the description to remove all references to Liberation and
   Red Hat.

This makes updates almost impossible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ttf-liberation depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

ttf-liberation recommends no packages.

ttf-liberation suggests no packages.

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Hi,

On Monday 28 July 2008 11:02, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Agreed, this case is explicitly covered by DFSG article 4.

Which reads: 

"4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code

The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form 
_only_ if the license allows the distribution of patch files with the source 
code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must 
explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. 
The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version 
number from the original software. (This is a compromise. The Debian group 
encourages all authors not to restrict any files, source or binary, from 
being modified.)"

http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines


regards,
	Holger

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