ttf-dejavu and Bitstream's license (bug#353462)

["Peter Černák" <pcernak@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm searching legal advice about the no-advertising clause in
Bitstream's license as summarized in the following bug report.

-- Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christian Hammers <ch@d...an.org>
Date: 18.2.2006 19:43
Subject: Bug#353462: ttf-dejavu: license prohibits advertising with
Bitstream name - description uses them
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>


Package: ttf-dejavu
Version: 2.1-2
Severity: normal

Hello

The /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu/copyright file says:
 "Except as contained in this notice, the names of Gnome, the Gnome
 Foundation, and Bitstream Inc., shall not be used in advertising..."

But the package is "advertised" by the following sentence in the package
description:
 "These fonts are based on the famous Bitstream Vera font family"

So...
- is this "advertising" at all
- is "Bitstream" the name of "Bitstream Inc." or would it only be a
  problem if we added the "Inc." to the description

bye,

-christian-