Bug#733285: root-system: contains non-free fonts

[Paul Wise]

Source: root-system
Version: 5.34.00-2
Severity: serious
User: pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: non-free
X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

Your source package contains non-free fonts:

http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.00-2/fonts
http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.10-1/fonts
http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.14-1/fonts

arial.ttf arialbd.ttf arialbi.ttf ariali.ttf ariblk.ttf comic.ttf
comicbd.ttf cour.ttf courbd.ttf courbi.ttf couri.ttf georgia.ttf
georgiab.ttf georgiai.ttf georgiaz.ttf impact.ttf monotype.ttf times.ttf
timesbd.ttf timesbi.ttf timesi.ttf trebuc.ttf trebucbd.ttf trebucbi.ttf
trebucit.ttf verdana.ttf verdanab.ttf verdanai.ttf verdanaz.ttf
webdings.ttf wingding.ttf

These look to be from either Microsoft Windows or here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

Here is the LICENSE file:

http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.00-2/fonts/LICENSE
http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.10-1/fonts/LICENSE
http://sources.debian.net/src/root-system/5.34.14-1/fonts/LICENSE

This licence clearly does not allow all the DFSG-required freedoms:

http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

Please remove the fonts from the source package or move the package to
non-free. Please also ask upstream to remove the fonts from the VCS,
source tarballs and binary packages. The package in Debian stable has
this issue, please update it there too:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

This message is brought to you by the Debian Fonts Task Force:

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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