On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:11:10AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > >    The font libphp-phplot-4.4.6+5.0rc1.orig/examples/benjamingothic.ttf
> > > (Benjamin Gothic Regular) does not mention the author's name nor its
> > > licensing terms. All it has is the string "FREEWARE", which needs
> > > clarification because it usually means "free for non-commercial use",
> > > and does not allow modification.

> > Are you asserting that you know the origin of this font, and know that the
> > copyright holder is not the same as that for the rest of the package?
> > Otherwise, how do we know that this is a bug at all?

>    The document at http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/osteuropa1.pdf
> indicates that "Benjamin Gothic Regular" is actually a counterfeit Adobe
> Benguiat Gothic created in 1994 by the company "Mon Ami". The company
> since went out of business following the assassination of its leader.

Er... doesn't this document also claim that Arial is a counterfeit Helvetica
font?  If I'm reading this correctly, it doesn't appear to be a very
credible claim that there's anything wrong with the Mon Ami fonts either...
It would seem to establish at least a copyright /trail/, that should be
addressed in debian/copyright, but still does not yet demonstrate a DFSG
violation.

Cheers,
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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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