Description of problem: Of the 35 .pfb font files, only three have a reference to the GPL. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The files from which the GPL reference is missing are all those that have been modified by Valek Filippov, who claims copyright on his work but is apparently not licensing it under the GPL.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
It is still the case in urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1 that only a few of the afm and pfb files have a reference to the GNU GPL. The same fonts are provided by the tetex-fonts and tetex-afm packages and all of those afms and pfbs have references to the GNU GPL. It is true that rpm -qi urw-fonts mentions the licence but if the copyright holder URW put references to the license in the font and font-metric files, they should be left there. I believe they were removed by Valek Filippov, who added Cyrillic glyphs, but had no right to strip the licence information from the files.
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GPL references still missing in FC8. Two of the afms and pfbs have a reference to "the file COPYING". The two pfbs have in addition an important *exception* to the GPL conditions: As a special exception, permission is granted to include this font program in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. This Notice was inserted by the Copyright owner (URW) and should presumably be in *all* the pfbs.
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