Severity: serious
Package: xfonts-75dpi
Note, while this is filed against xfonts-75dpi, it affects several of
the font packages generated from the xfree86 source package, feel free
to reassign to another package.
The two large groups in question are the Utopia (UT*) and the Lucida
(lu*) fonts.
The only license I can find on the Utopia fonts is in the font files
themselves:
COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights
Reserved.
Obviously without something further we do not even have a license to
distribute them, hopefully I am simply missing a license somewhere that
gives us proper rights, however..
The license case for the Lucida fonts is a little more interesting.
In the font files is the following notice:
COMMENT (c) Copyright Bigelow Holmes 1986, 1985. Lucida is a registered
COMMENT trademark of Bigelow Holmes. See LEGAL NOTICE file for terms
COMMENT of the license.
The contents of the file in question is below, what rights it gives is,
a very interesting question. It does not explicitly give permission to
modify, however it is vague enough that -legal should probably examine
it.
(Note, this is a /different/ license then the one Branden recently sent
BH a letter about.)
This is the LEGAL NOTICE pertaining to the Lucida fonts from Bigelow Holmes:
NOTICE TO USER: The source code, including the glyphs or icons
forming a par of the OPEN LOOK TM Graphic User Interface, on this
tape and in these files is copyrighted under U.S. and international
laws. Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Mountain View, California owns
the copyright and has design patents pending on many of the icons.
ATT is the owner of the OPEN LOOK trademark associated with the
materials on this tape. Users and possessors of this source code
are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright and
design patent license to use this code in individual and
commercial software. A royalty-free, nonexclusive trademark
license to refer to the code and output as OPEN LOOK compatible
is available from ATT if, and only if, the appearance of the
icons or glyphs is not changed in any manner except as absolutely
necessary to accommodate the standard resolution of the screen or
other output device, the code and output is not changed except as
authorized herein, and the code and output is validated by ATT.
Bigelow Holmes is the owner of the Lucida (R) trademark for the
fonts and bit-mapped images associated with the materials on this
tape. Users are granted a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use
the trademark only to identify the fonts and bit-mapped images if,
and only if, the fonts and bit-mapped images are not modified in any
way by the user.
Any use of this source code must include, in the user documentation
and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user as
follows:
(c) Copyright 1989 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun design patents
pending in the U.S. and foreign countries. OPEN LOOK is a
trademark of ATT. Used by written permission of the owners.
(c) Copyright Bigelow Holmes 1986, 1985. Lucida is a registered
trademark of Bigelow Holmes. Permission to use the Lucida
trademark is hereby granted only in association with the images
and fonts described in this file.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., ATT, AND BIGELOW HOLMES
MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED AS IS
WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., ATT AND BIGELOW HOLMES,
SEVERALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SUN MICROSYSTEMS,
INC., ATT OR BIGELOW HOLMES BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA
OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE.
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1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801
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