Proprietary fonts in main?

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

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.

Well, let's look at another, mangoquest-data

synrg@sanctuary:/usr/share/mangopeeler/fonts$ strings font.ttf | grep -i copyright
JDigitized data copyright (C) 1991-1996 The Monotype Corporation. All rights
reserved. Impact is a trademark of Stephenson Blake (Holdings)
Ltd.ImpactRegularImpact - 1992ImpactVersion 2.30ImpactImpact is a trademark
of Stephenson Blake (Holdings) Ltd.

This is not looking good.  So, how widespread is this problem?  Shouldn't
each and every package containing a .ttf be examined and bugs filed based on
these findings?

Ben
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