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and subject line Bug#1112616: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1041017,
regarding fonts-kacst: unclear licensing status, possibly non-free
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Package: fonts-kacst
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Khaled Hosny (cc'd) filed a bug against LibreOffice[1], writing:
The last versions of these fonts were prepared by me, over a decade
ago, when I was still believing these are FOSS fonts, but I’m no longer
sure about their legal status. They disappeared entirely from KACST
website where they were once hosted, and attempts to get in contact
with anyone who knows anything about them failed. They appear to be
clones of other non-free fonts, so the whole thing is shady.
The fonts have since been removed from LibreOffice[2]. Filing as serious
given the questionable licensing.
[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152376
[2]
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6d6a2343b1d45695f3ea02818d317a022a7b259f
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers oldstable-security
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.35-1.qubes.fc32.x86_64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fonts-kacst depends on:
ii dpkg 1.20.12
Versions of packages fonts-kacst recommends:
pn fonts-kacst-one <none>
fonts-kacst suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.01+mry-15+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package fonts-kacst has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1112616
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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