Bug#298960: freewrl: contains non-free fonts

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@vub.ac.be> wrote:

> Package: freewrl
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.2.1
>
> This package contains many Bitstream fonts. The README file does not
> include a license

The font files are:

$ dlocate -L freewrl | grep font
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Amrigob.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Amrigobi.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Amrigoi.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Amrigon.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Baubodbi.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Baubodi.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Baubodn.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Futurab.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Futurabi.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/Futuran.ttf
/usr/share/perl5/VRML/fonts/README

(minus the README file, of course)

[...]
> To get replacement fonts, you can depend on ttf-bitstream-vera,
> ttf-freefont, or one of the other free fonts packaged in Debian.

Do you know which files from these packages could be used instead of the
ones included in freewrl?  I don't know *how* freewrl uses them, but I
saw that they are simply copied in the binary-arch target of
debian/rules - it should be straightforward to create symlinks.  One
would just have to know which targets to point to...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer