Package: fonts-kacst Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 X-Debbugs-Cc: lego...@debian.org, kha...@aliftype.com
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.