Re: Proprietary fonts in main?

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:11:55PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> While looking for a TrueType font suitable for use in tuxpaint (to replace
> the proprietary chicago.ttf font currently in the package) I tried this:
> 
> apt-file search '\.ttf'
> 
> I found quite a number of packages with .ttf files in them.
> 
> At random, I picked hatman and checked it out.  It has two fonts, and this
> is what I found about them:
> 
> synrg@sanctuary:/usr/share/hatman/fonts$ strings casual.ttf | grep -i copyright
> Copyright (c) 1992 Corel Corporation. All Rights
> Reserved.FrankensteinRegularFrankenstein
> PlainFrankenstein001.003FrankensteinPlain
> synrg@sanctuary:/usr/share/hatman/fonts$ strings menu.ttf | grep -i copyright  
> synrg@sanctuary:/usr/share/hatman/fonts$
> 
> The "all rights reserved" does not bode well.  Also, who knows where
> menu.ttf came from, as it has no copyright notice.

Please file an RC bug on hatman. I'll probably have it removed from the
distribution, it's pretty much useless anyway unless the upstream releases a
new version, and that doesn't look like it's gonna happen any time soon.

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