Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing"
Hi fabian!
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, fabian@greffrath.com wrote:
> Am 23.01.2023 18:23, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld:
> > Now we only have to solve the lintian error
> > license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment-no-credit issue...
>
> wow, the information given here is not really helpful. What can/should we
> do?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/type1nondfsg
Legal issues are the horror to me...
I dived into the referenced bug #665334 and read in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665334#173 that
some of the code is based on Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType
(AFDKO), which is licensed under Apache-2.0 license.
But I didn't compare the code in AFDKO and the urw-base35 fonts so
far.
But it's also possible that urw-base35 is based on an older version of
fontforge, which still has this issue.
So maybe this issue is already solved and lintian has to be
updated/overriden but it's also possible that this issue still
persists and has to be solved by URW.
Maybe some of the contributors of #665334 can assist here?
Greetings
Roland
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