From 66ae54de116781635c871dd0427678290ac88c8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <66ae54de116781635c871dd0427678290ac88c8a.1714132239.git.mdw@distorted.org.uk> From: Mark Wooding Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:27:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] debian/copyright: Explain the origin and copyright status of 6x13O. Organization: Straylight/Edgeware From: Mark Wooding --- debian/copyright | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index 0ba208f..c7898da 100644 --- 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. ====================================================================== -- [mdw]