Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

[Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>]

On 07/31/2012 09:17 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> 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.

Will do. Would it be acceptable if I import a new, DFSG-clean version
where I do the replacement myself?

Thanks for the advice.

Michael