hi,
i'm currently preparing the upload of the "gmerlin" Debian package,
which contains a type1 font that triggers the lintian error
"license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment"
so i did some research on how other packages handle this error, and came
across "texlive-fonts-recommended", which contains other type1 fonts
that appear to have the same issue:
the thing is, that there *is* an embedded fragment in my font that says
"(c) Adobe", but the fragment is *not* the one mentioned at [1], but
instead a very frugal:
<snip>
[ {} {} {}
{systemdict /internaldict known not
{pop 3}
{1183615869 systemdict /internaldict get exec
dup /startlock known
{/startlock get exec}
{dup /strtlck known
{/strtlck get exec}
{pop 3}
ifelse}
ifelse}
ifelse
} executeonly
] ND
</snip>
this looks suspiciously similar to what is included in "uhvro8a.pfb" in
the texlive-fonts-recommented package.
now, it seems you have added a lintian-override for this particular
error, but i couldn't find any documentation (neither a comment in the
override file, nor a remark in debian/changelog) on what justifies this
override.
as i would like to also add this override in my package, i would like to
ask you, why you think this is a false-positive (or whatever).
mgfrdsa
IOhannes
PS: please CC me, as i'm not subscribed on the list.
[1] http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_ps_code3.html
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