On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:28:30 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi, Hi! :-) > > The Ghostscript project includes some so-called "CMap" files contributed > by Adobe, which until recently was shipped with a non-free license > allowing only redistribution: [...] > Consequently Ghostscript in Debian have shipped without those CMap > files, hurting (as I understand it) handling of multibyte fonts. > > September 25 CMap files was updated in Ghostscript Subversion, with the > following license: > > >Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or > >without modification, are permitted provided that the > >following conditions are met: > > > >Redistributions of source code must retain the above > >copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following > >disclaimer. > > > >Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above > >copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following > >disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials > >provided with the distribution. Mmmmh, it seems that you didn't *fully* quote the text of the new license... > > Commit message indicates that Ghostscript project interpret the new > license as allowing modifications. I would like to have the legal teams > opinion on whether this new license is acceptable for the Debian > project. [...] According to recent news about this re-licensing, the newly adopted license is a BSD license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/09/msg00044.html The blog post cited in the above message is: http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-freed/ and the actual text of the new license is: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/License which is basically the 3-clause BSD license. The 3-clause BSD license is a simple and permissive Free Software non-copyleft license: it is perfectly fine for Debian (main). There are many other packages in main that are released under equivalent terms. [...] > Please cc me personally on responses, as I am not subscribed to the > list. Done. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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