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Roland Mainz wrote:
| Again, this does not cover the PMF files. The original files have been
| commited by Hewlett-Packard under the MIT/X Consortium license many many
| years ago (and the files for the Postscript DDX were later refreshed by
| me to fix a minor bug - and I committed them under the same license:
| MIT/X.org). The so-called "copyright" notice in these files is just an
| attribute which informs the application that the attribute "COPYRIGHT"
| has a value. But this value does not relicense the file itself away from
| the MIT/X.org license. That would be the same as "relicesing" this email
| just because it references the string. References or index data of this
| kind cannot be copyrighted, neither in the US nor in Japan nor elsewhere
| in the world.
|
|
|>I will try to find this discussion in Debian's list archives
|>if you're interested.
|
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| Sure. It may be possible that Adobe Japan did some tricky stuff with CID
| fonts, but again this doesn't apply to something which has been
| explicitly commited under the MIT/X.org license by the authors.
Since the xprint-org package is anyway maintained outside the xfree86
tree AND considering that the whole purpose of these new X.org packages
is to split the tree as much as possible, I suggest that we can just
stop shipping the xprint code from x.org tree, since there is absolutely
no point in shipping it twice and maintaing it twice.