Bug#694323: [gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved
Hi Bastien,
so that was the outcome of the discussion on d-d ... you went ahead
with useless mass bug filing. Well done.
On So, 25 Nov 2012, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> % Copyright (c) 1987-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated
Instead of digging around you *MIGHT* look for *WHERE* this comes from
to help everyone.
> > This package include copyrighted font hinting from adobe.
>
> Do I understand correctly that we're not supposed to do anything, but
> just wait until fontforge is fixed?
Frank, for now please don't do anything. We will see how this
develops. This was a mass bug filing (probably to make release
cycles more enjoyable) and there is no agreement how to deal with
it, at least what I saw on d-d mailing list.
> | lm2.003mt1.zip -- Latin Modern source font files for the METATYPE1 package
It is alread lm2.004 ...
> The Debian orig.tar.gz doesn't seem to contain the source archive's
> contents. I'm not familiar with font generation, but it seems to me
> that, in order to be able to generate corrected Type1 files with a fixed
> fontforge version, we would need the contents of lm2.003.mt1.zip, e.g.:
It is not a question of fontforge... THe lines mentioned come from
pfcommon.dat
which was inherited from metatype1.
I will contact the GUST people about that.
> Does that mean we have one more RC bug, namely that the sources are
> incomplete? debian/copyright says:
No. I don't consider the metatype sources necessary, because afterwards
the fonts went through manual hinting and fixing.
Best wishes
Norbert
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