[Tuxpaint-devel] Vietnamese font license invalid

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

Hi,

Please remove the vi.ttf font from the Tux Paint source
distribution until the author licenses it correctly.  The web site
from which the font is distributed says in the FAQ:

1. Are these fonts copyright? Yes. Although they are free, they are
subject to copyright under the GNU License. You may modify the fonts,
include glyphs in your own fonts, and even sell your modified versions,
but if you do they must also be released under the same GNU License
terms. Modified versions must be renamed. Please do not redistribute my
fonts, but post a link to this page to ensure that everyone can get the
latest versions and other new fonts.

However, Bitstream Vera, on which the font is based according to
vi_docs/COPYING.txt is not under any GNU license!  So the license of
this font is invalid (not to mention the fact that the web site links
to the FSF's license page without mentioning which one is
supposed to apply to the font).

I cannot upload the new tuxpaint to Debian until this is resolved (see
rejection of my upload below). In fact, I have my work cut out for me
today to update the copyright file in the Debian package to include
*all* license texts (even ones that I don't distribute in the .debs, as
we distribute the source, so the licenses of the others must be included
too).  So far I have only looked at the ones for which I make debs.
There may be problems with others too, and if there are I'll send a
separate note.

Thanks,
Ben

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:48:19 +0000
From: Joerg Jaspert <ftp...@de...>
To: Ben Armstrong <sy...@sa...>
Cc: Debian Installer <ins...@ft...>
Subject: tuxpaint_0.9.19-1_i386.changes REJECTED


Hi  Maintainer,

rejected, please enhance your copyright file. You may want to read
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
for a bit more information.

You also miss some licenses, like for ttf files (use less on
default_font.ttf for an example, but thats not the only one.)


--
bye Joerg



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