Bug#401325: Potential non-free afm files in OpenOffice package
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Severity: serious
>
> From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univention.de>
> Subject: Potential non-free content in OpenOffice package
> To: rene@debian.org
> Cc: halls@debian.org, gohmann@univention.de
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:24:05 +0100
>
> Hi Rene, hi Chris,
> we noticed a potentially non-free file in the Debian Openoffice.org package in
> sid: Courier-Bold.afm contains the following copyright header:
>
> |Comment Copyright (c) 1989 1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights
> reserved.
These are probably the same AFM files that were relicensed by Adobe in
the Public Domain (essentially) in spring. They can be downloaded from
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/adobe/afm/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-314.tar.gz.
The files still contain the "All rights reserved" header, but there's a
file MustRead.html which contains
,----
| This file and the 35 PostScript(R) AFM files it accompanies may be
| used, copied, and distributed for any purpose and without charge, with
| or without modification, provided that all copyright notices are
| retained; that the AFM files are not distributed without this file;
| that all modifications to this file or any of the AFM files are
| prominently noted in the modified file(s); and that this paragraph is
| not modified. Adobe Systems has no responsibility or obligation to
| support the use of the AFM files.
`----
Some more information about the relicensing might be available in the
archives of tex-live, http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/. Werner LEMBERG
<wl at gnu.org> took care of that.
So it would not have been necessary to remove them, I think.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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