Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Michael Wild
<themiwi@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe
> Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is
> copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.:
>
> * Copyright(C)2000-2006 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
> * Copyright(C)1997-2007 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> * Copyright 1997-2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
> * Copyright 1987-2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Yes and a lot of font file include othersubrs copyrighted by adobe.
See my thread five year ago
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00134.html
Bastien
> and so on.
>
> Does this make the file non-redistributable and non-DFSG free? If not,
> would I need to list all these copyright statements into debian/copyright?
>
> Strange thing is, most of it is simply boilerplate that is not even
> used. Running it through eps2eps (a ghostscript wrapper) brings the file
> down from 220K to 4K!
>
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Michael
>
>
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