On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Wild wrote: > I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe > Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is > copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: ... > Does this make the file non-redistributable and non-DFSG free? If not, > would I need to list all these copyright statements into debian/copyright?
Probably both. > Strange thing is, most of it is simply boilerplate that is not even > used. Running it through eps2eps (a ghostscript wrapper) brings the file > down from 220K to 4K! Please ask upstream to replace it with the stripped version. I've also seen images that contain proprietary ICC profiles, I bet that there are a lot of images in Debian that were produced using non-free software and contain snippets of non-free data in otherwise free images. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HoPrJenArdv+rrSkwJKnyKxc=b7o02cKkrwz1H=ng...@mail.gmail.com