reopen 402148 found 0.1-5 retitle 402148 License violation clone 402148 -1 severity -1 minor retitle -1 Should be automatically generated from pfb source thanks
Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm closing this bug now, because it clearly isn't a bug. See the bug > report log for details. Sorry, this is simply not true. For example, the bug log contains this: ,---- | > (I'm even wondering if #388795 is not a license violation, as I'm quite | > sure without looking the original fonts include "]".) | | You might be right, because | | ,---- | | [...] the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be removed | | from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in | | any way. | `---- | | However, I don't know whether forgetting one character qualifies as a | derivative version, instead of just being a bug... `---- Meanwhile, you or upstream claim that the ttf version has been manually altered considerably, is to be considered a derived version, and hence the pfb files are not the source, but the ttf files themselves are. Well, in this case this bug may not be a "source is missing" RC bug, but it's still a "license violation" RC bug. Earlier in this bug Georg Baum said that the original pfb fonts are under the LPPL, but this is wrong - most are under an individual unnamed license. Part of it is quoted above and requires to remove the AMS copyright notice from derivative versions, which has not been done with the latex-xft-fonts package. Moreover, I think even the "source is missing" issue is still a bug, even if not RC. The copyright file states that the pfb files have been "hinted and touched up with FontLab v.3.0c". Hinting and other changes can also be scripted, and it would be a nice thing to do that automated with fontforge, starting from the pfb files. I would regard this as wishlist, or minor, but I don't think this part of the bug should be closed. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
