Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL

2003-02-25 Thread Simon Law
Package: ttf-freefont Version: 20021016-2 Severity: serious The package ttf-freefont is licensed under the GNU General Public License, as listed in the appended debian/copyright file. I can confirm this from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/COPYING . Since ttf-freefont

Re: GNOME Font Copyright

2003-02-25 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Don Armstrong wrote: As far as I can tell, the vera fonts are not available from gnome's ftp site yet. [Feel free to provide linkage to demonstrate otherwise.] See http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ for the link to the following file. $ wget --spider --server-response

Re: GNOME Font Copyright

2003-02-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) In another post to debian-legal I encouraged Debian to basically ignore the draft license until some software is released under it. On debian-legal, we're usually happy to work with software authors to get the warts removed from their draft

Re: GNOME Font Copyright

2003-02-25 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Feb 25, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: I asked if my understanding of the exchange was correct--GNOME distributes Bitstream's non-free Vera fonts and in exchange Bitstream eventually supplies DFSG-free software. I believe this is incorrect -- I don't think that GNOME is compelled to

Re: GNOME Font Copyright

2003-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: I asked if my understanding of the exchange was correct--GNOME distributes Bitstream's non-free Vera fonts and in exchange Bitstream eventually supplies DFSG-free software. You're asking the wrong people then, since (as far as I know) none of

Re: Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Hawkins
Hi... On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:17:00AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: Package: ttf-freefont Version: 20021016-2 Severity: serious The package ttf-freefont is licensed under the GNU General Public License, as listed in the appended debian/copyright file. I can confirm this from

Re: Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL

2003-02-25 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Hawkins) wrote: Hi... On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:17:00AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: Package: ttf-freefont Version: 20021016-2 Severity: serious The package ttf-freefont is licensed under the GNU General Public License, as listed in the appended

Re: Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL

2003-02-25 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:10:58AM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote: Hi... On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:17:00AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: Package: ttf-freefont Version: 20021016-2 Severity: serious The package ttf-freefont is licensed under the GNU General Public License, as listed in the

Re: Bug#182402: ttf-freefont is violating the GNU GPL

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Hawkins
Hi... On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:22:25PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:10:58AM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. If you can legitimately justify that the preferred