Bug#694323: [gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved

[Preuße , Hilmar]

On 11/25/2012 3:04 PM, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:

Hello,

This package include copyrighted font hinting from adobe.

% Copyright (c) 1987-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated
% All Rights Reserved.
% This code to be used for hint replacement only

As pointed out Adobe has relicensed the PS code under Apache License v2.
Please document the license in the package's copyright file to address
this bug.

%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRomanDemi10-Regular 2.004
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRomanDemi10-Oblique 2.004
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMMathSymbols10-Bold 1.200
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMMathSymbols5-Bold 1.200
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMMathSymbols7-Bold 1.200
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRoman10-Bold 2.004
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRoman12-Bold 2.004
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRoman5-Bold 2.004
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRoman6-Bold 2.004
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sigfault

In the latest pfb files, that (C) statement is missing. Do we have to update c/copyright? hille@rasppi3:~/devel/TeXLive/github/lmodern/fonts/type1/public/lm $ for i in *.pfb; do strings $i|strings|grep -i adobe ; done

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