Bug#218105: tetex-base: woeful copyright file
From: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
Subject: Bug#218105: tetex-base: woeful copyright file
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:32:19 +0000
> The reason why I filed this bug is because someone copied some of the
> tetex fonts into a new package and just stuck "GPL" in the copyright
> file, presumably because that's what it said in tetex's copyright
> file. This is obviously wrong since the fonts in question definitely
> aren't under the GPL. In fact even after searching I couldn't find
> what license they're under, and that's what concerns me. Me (and the
> maintainer of this new package) should be able to tell that
> _accurately_ from the copyright file.
About font, I heard that font is not copyrightable.
(It might depends on countries, however.)
It is true that the current copyright file is very poor
and should need more refinement. But what kind of format
do you think better in practice?
I can't even imagine any.
Regards, 2003-10-31(Fri)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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