On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 06:12 +0000, Griffith Rees wrote:
> According to a guy from the  ubuntustudio irc room, the most obvious
> GPL violation is with fonts. 

 As far as I can see the bundled fonts do not become a 
GPL violation if they are not wrapped inside the binaries.

 But their inclusion is certainly not DFSG compliant,
which Debian and Ubuntu packages in the "main" repository
must be.


> The guy claims cinelerra is using M$ fonts which aren't GPL, 

 It is, and that is really simple to verify:

strings -f /usr/lib/cinelerra/fonts/*.ttf | \
grep "Microsoft Corporation. All rights"


> and he seemed to imply that therefore there may be other
> violations elsewhere. 

 Particulary the bundled codecs contain work from other
sources.  There are other licences cited there, and they
need to be DFSG compatible.

-- 
 Herman Robak


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