Bug#694323: [gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved
Hi Bastien, hi Norbert,
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
>> 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.
If this is right, then it is wrong to block the bug by the fontforge
bug, isn't it? Bastien, I'm not sure enough about this to remove the
blocking myself, please do it.
>> 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.
How ist that done? I thought it was done with fontforge scripts - I
understand this is not the case? Did they really open the font files in
interactive fontforge, adjust and safe?
Regards, Frank
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