On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> wrote: > Hi, > >>The originals of several of these functions seem to appear (with >>non-DFSG-free licensing) in the appendices of >>http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5015.Type1_Supp.pdf >> >>In particular, the licensing says: >> >>>>> This code, as well as the code in the following appendices, is >>>>> copyrighted by >>>>> Adobe Systems Incorporated, and may not be reproduced except by >>>>> permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorporated >>>>> grants permission to use this code in Type 1 font programs, as long as the >>>>> code is used as it appears in this document, the copyright notice remains >>>>> intact, and the character outline code included in such a font program is >>>>> neither copied nor derived from character outline code in any Adobe >>>>> Systems >>>>> font program. > > >>> https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/fontforge/othersubrs.c > > This code seems to be based on > https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/tree/master/FDK/Tools/Programs/public/lib/source/t1write/t1write_flexothers.* > and now Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) is licensed under > Apache-2.0 license. Fontforge is licensed under GPL-3, so it's not a > problem to embedded it. > > Thanks, Read and other folks in Adobe :) > Bug#665334 "non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge" is solved. > > > > However, I don't know it is okay for other pfb files with license conflicts. > Apache-2.0 conflicts with GPL-2, at least, and it may conflict with > other license, > too. > > Just "type 1 fonts include Adobe all right reserved code" is not a problem, > but > if those type 1 fonts would be licensed under certain license like GPL-2 that > conflict with Apache-2.0...?
If it is GPL-2+ it is not a problem but a few fonts file are released under GPL-2 only... It is quite a mess. > And, how can I think about fontforge copies snippet to generate those > *.pfb files? Could you modify comment on this code to add some fontforge comment ? Like for instance "inserted by fontforge (debian someversion)". I could teach lintian to check if font are regenerated. What do you think? Bastien > > It's for Bug#694308. >
