Bug#401325: Potential non-free afm files in OpenOffice package
Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 08:12 schrieben Sie:
> These are probably the same AFM files that were relicensed by Adobe in
> the Public Domain (essentially) in spring. They can be downloaded from
> ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/adobe/afm/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-314.tar.gz.
No, they are not.
e.g:
~/OpenOffice.org/OOE680/psprint_config/configuration/afm$ md5sum Courier-Bold.afm
fc8048ff93479289d824937b25bea84c Courier-Bold.afm
~/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-314> md5sum Courier-Bold.afm
58e0566c5e2a1a62756a57a100a62dc3 Courier-Bold.afm
~/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-229> md5sum Courier-Bold.afm
aa3007a9076dea36db4fabe2a36ed463 Courier-Bold.afm
But those files probably can be replaced by the new, apparently free ones.
> The files still contain the "All rights reserved" header, but there's a
> file MustRead.html which contains
>
> ,----
> | This file and the 35 PostScript(R) AFM files it accompanies may be
> | used, copied, and distributed for any purpose and without charge, with
> | or without modification, provided that all copyright notices are
> | retained; that the AFM files are not distributed without this file;
> | that all modifications to this file or any of the AFM files are
> | prominently noted in the modified file(s); and that this paragraph is
> | not modified. Adobe Systems has no responsibility or obligation to
> | support the use of the AFM files.
> `----
>
> Some more information about the relicensing might be available in the
> archives of tex-live, http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/. Werner LEMBERG
> <wl at gnu.org> took care of that.
>
> So it would not have been necessary to remove them, I think.
Wrong. (See above). Of course, we could readd the new ones, but the old ones
had to be removed.
Regards,
Rene
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