Bitstream Vera Latin characters used but no Copyright notice

Bug #42921 reported by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ttf-arabeyes (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Many of the 38 ArabEyes fonts include Latin characters from the Bitstream Vera fonts but do not include the proper Copyright notice and License.

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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo) wrote :

here's the list:

* Bitstream Vera Serif:
ae_AlArabiya
ae_AlBattar
ae_AlHor
ae_AlManzomah
ae_AlMohanad
ae_Arab
ae_Cortoba
ae_Dimnah
ae_Electron
ae_Furat
ae_Granada
ae_Graph
ae_Hani
ae_Haramain
ae_Hor
ae_Japan
ae_Jet
ae_Kayrawan
ae_Khalid
ae_Mashq
ae_Metal
ae_Nada
ae_Nagham
ae_Ostorah
ae_Petra
ae_Rehan
ae_Salem
ae_Shado
ae_Sharjah
ae_Sindibad
ae_Tarablus
ae_Tholoth

* Bitstream Vera Serif Bold:
ae_AlMateen
ae_Rasheeq

* Bitstream Vera Sans:
ae_AlMothnna
ae_AlYermook
ae_Nice

* Bitstream Vera Sans Bold:
ae_Ouhod

The Copyright notice in /usr/share/docs/ttf-arabeyes/copyright only contains:
This package was initially debianized by Mohammed Elzubeir
<email address hidden> on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:38:18 +0400.

It was downloaded from http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=khotot

Upstream Author: Arabeyes Project (www.arabeyes.org)

Copyright:

Copyright (c) 2004, Arabeyes Project

These fonts are distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2.
(See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL)
EOF

This means is not respectiong the Bitstream License (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts)
"The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software typefaces."
Bitstream Vera fonts are not under GPL v2 but under the Bitstream License mentionned above.

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

The README file says:

Latin glyphs (U+0021-U+007E, U+00A1-U+0237, U+1E00-U+1EF9 and
U+FB00-U+FB06 Unicode ranges) are based on "Free UCS Outline Fonts",
www.nongnu.org/freefont (Copyleft 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software
Foundation).

If you can prove that this is not true, can you please file a bug with upstream and link it here?
Thanks a lot.

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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo) wrote :

Thanks. This had been fixed upstream.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427886

Changed in ttf-arabeyes:
status: New → Fix Released
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