[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#665334: Bug#665334: non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge (currently August 2014)

[Vasudev Kamath]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> Hi Vasudev--
>
> On Sat 2016-07-30 03:17:01 -0400, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>
>> Do you still find this problem in latest fontforge in Debian
>> experimental?.. I did a quick search in fontforge/othersubrs.c file I
>> did not find exact license text you posted.
>
> I don't see that license text either, but there are several weird
> references to adobe in fontforge/othersubrs.c which i don't really know
> how to interpret clearly.

Same here.

>
>> Since I became the new maintainer of fontforge, this bug popped up on my
>> Maintainer Dashboard :-). So wondering if this issue still affects
>> fontforge or not.
>
> well, the specific text i pointed out as problematic is gone.  But there
> are still provocative statements like:
>
>   These subroutines are code by Adobe for this exact use (from
>   T1_Spec.pdf)
>
>
> or:
>
>   static const char *copyright[] = {
>         "% Copyright (c) 1987-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated.",
>         "% All Rights Reserved.",
>         "% This code to be used for Flex and hint replacement.",
>         "% Version 1.1",
>         NULL
>   };
>
>
> but i confess i've lost track of how to interpret them, sorry :(

Yeah I noticed them.

Hello fellow fonts team members :-). Do you guys have some suggestion here?.