debian/copyright: Explain the origin and copyright status of 6x13O.

[xfonts-traditional] / debian / copyright

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 0ba208fc7dc83c591ed28acd3ee0f1d061a76f54..c7898daeba6867d4968900f991426c44ba7b20b4 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ It is released under the following licence:
   ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
   DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-The font glyph shape information is from pcfs which were copied out of
+Most font glyph shape information is from pcfs which were copied out of
 xfonts-base.  For "good", version 3.3.6-2 and for "bad" 1:1.0.1.
 
-These pcfs were originally generated from source code in that
+Most pcfs were originally generated from source code in that
 xfonts-base; but here, in xfonts-traditional, we do not modify them
 any longer.  (It would be possible to build-depend on the relevant
 xfonts-base, but this would make life worse rather than better because
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ it would make the resulting xfonts-traditional binary package
 nonfunctional if you happened to already have a traditional xfonts-base
 installed on the build host.)
 
+The font 6x13O is an exception: no oblique version of 6x13 existed in
+xfonts-base 3.3.6-2.  Mark Wooding created the `good' version of this font by
+hand-editing the `bad' version.  The edited version, like the original, is in
+the public domain.
+
 The copyright files for the two xfonts-base packages follow.
 
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