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Bug#620674: marked as done (base-files: Please include the text of the Open Font License (OFL) in /usr/share/common-licenses)

Your message dated Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:19:02 +0200
with message-id <20110405081902.GB6964@yellowpig>
and subject line Re: Bug#620674: base-files: Please include the text of the Open Font License (OFL) in /usr/share/common-licenses
has caused the Debian Bug report #620674,
regarding base-files: Please include the text of the Open Font License (OFL) in /usr/share/common-licenses
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: base-files
Version: 6.1
Severity: normal

The Open Font License is quite universally considered as meeting the
DFSG. Indeed, several font packages in Debian main provide fonts
distributed under that license.

Having the full text of OFL distributed in /usr/share/common-licenses
would avoid including the text of the license in these packages.

The full text of OFL 1.1 is attached to this bug report.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii  gawk [awk]                1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  mawk [awk]                1.3.3-15       a pattern scanning and text proces

base-files recommends no packages.

base-files suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Copyright (c) <dates>, <Copyright Holder> (<URL|email>),
with Reserved Font Name <Reserved Font Name>.
Copyright (c) <dates>, <additional Copyright Holder> (<URL|email>),
with Reserved Font Name <additional Reserved Font Name>.
Copyright (c) <dates>, <additional Copyright Holder> (<URL|email>).

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL


-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------

PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.

"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).

"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.

4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.

5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.

TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.

DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:49:52PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org):
> 
> > At the time, we therefore decided that this was some distance away from
> > being widely used enough to put in common-licenses, given the various
> > drawbacks of that (adding a level of indirection for people reviewing
> > licenses and so on).
> > 
> > Do you think this may have changed in the subsequent nine months?  I can
> > run my survey script again.
> 
> No, probably not. I wasn't aware of this survey and the background
> that leads to a decision to include a given license in base-files or
> not.
> 
> So, given all this, I agree that this bug can be either closed (or
> marked "wontfix" if you prefer keeping it for further
> reference). Leaving the call up to you, Russ.

Well, I am closing this bug report, because there are already far too many open bugs
on policy and that it seems unlikely that the fraction of packages using this license
will grow significantly.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.

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