Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread MJ Ray
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I believe that I quoted the _license_ part of a CMap source header, deliberately leaving out the _copyright_ and _disclaimer_ parts, ad I considered those irrelevant for the question at hand. I think it's probably important to have the disclaimer because some

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:22:12AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I believe that I quoted the _license_ part of a CMap source header, deliberately leaving out the _copyright_ and _disclaimer_ parts, ad I considered those irrelevant for the question at hand. I think it's

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:22:12AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I think it's probably important to have the disclaimer because some licensors have tried to slip licence restrictions or liabilities into what they labelled as disclaimers; and it's useful to know

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: I will now go through my (or my where team-maintained) 90+ packages and make sure disclaimers are included. I don't think the disclaimer is part of the copyright license terms, so doesn't need to be in

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread mhatta
Hi, At Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:13:09 +0200, In addition to Francesco's mail, I'd like to ask why ghostscript is committing the CMap files to their SVN, shouldn't they just depend on them instead of making an embedded data copy? We (the Debian ghostscript team) do not include CMap files,

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:53 AM, mha...@mhatta.org wrote: Also, I know some Debian packages currently contain or use their own copy of Cmaps.  For example, poppler uses poppler-data, which contains Cmaps.  IIRC xpdf-* and dvipdfmx have some Cmaps, too.  I think we should begin a coordinated

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:44 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Mmmmh, it seems that you didn't *fully* quote the text of the new license... I believe that I quoted the _license_ part of a CMap source header, deliberately

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:32:36AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:44 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Mmmmh, it seems that you didn't *fully* quote the text of the new license... I believe that I

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:28:30 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi, Hi! :-) The Ghostscript project includes some so-called CMap files contributed by Adobe, which until recently was shipped with a non-free license allowing only redistribution: [...] Consequently Ghostscript in Debian have

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: September 25 CMap files was updated in Ghostscript Subversion, with the following license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:28:30 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: September 25 CMap files was updated in Ghostscript Subversion, with the following license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:24:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: September 25 CMap files was updated in Ghostscript Subversion, with the following license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without