Bug#356345: tetex-base: [licensing] antp fonts state they are Public Domain without explaining

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> *****************************************************************************
>> *               A replica of Antykwa P\'o\l{}tawskiego font                 *
>> *           in PostScript Type 1 format -- preliminary version              *
>> *                            Public domain                                  *
>> *****************************************************************************
>> 
>> Since Public Domain isn't a well defined term at least in some laws,
>> probably including the polish, this should be made more specific, like
>> 
>> "Permission is granted to freely use, distribute and/or modify all files
>> in the bundle." 
>
> If you start acting against 'public domain',

I'm not.

> there are many things in
> Debian that will have to be modified. Are you sure?

AFAIK, debian-legal's majority's opinion has always been that the
license should be explained in a sentence.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)