Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
> 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.:
...
> 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?
Probably both.
> 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!
Please ask upstream to replace it with the stripped version.
I've also seen images that contain proprietary ICC profiles, I bet
that there are a lot of images in Debian that were produced using
non-free software and contain snippets of non-free data in otherwise
free images.
--
bye,
pabs
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