Bug#298932: Unclear licensing of included fonts

[Reinhard Tartler]

"Gavin Camp \(gcamp\)" <gcamp at cisco.com> writes:
>> A debian user notified my about Truetype fonts included in scorched3d:
>>
>>>> ls data/fonts/*
>> data/fonts/test.ttf  data/fonts/testout.ttf  data/fonts/veramobd.ttf
>>
>> I cannot find any licensing or copyright information in the scorched3d
>> source. Without proper licencing, these files are probably not
>> redistributable by anyone but you.
>>
>> Could you perhaps give me origin and copyright information about these
>> fonts via email and include that information somewhere in the source?
>
> Test.rrf is an opensource font from a nehe tutorial,
> http://nehe.gamedev.net/
> testout.ttf is a font I made based on test.ttf.
> Veramodb.ttf is an GPL font from gnome - http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
> (I've added the copyright for this one).

Ok. Unfortunately, test.ttf is in fact Arial Black, and contains this
copyright information inside:

> Digitized data copyright (C) 1996 The Monotype Corporation. All
> rights reserved. Arial® is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation
> which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

It also contains this Description field:

> Monotype Drawing Office 1982. A contemporary sans serif design,
> Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its
> predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last
> decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is
> softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif
> faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give
> the face a less mechanical appearance.

This means that this font is clearly not distributable, since nobody
but Monotype has the right to do anything with that file (use,
modification or redistribution). This means that I have to remove that
file from the debian package :(

Gavin, could you perhaps search for a replacement font with suitable
license for inclusion into a free software project?

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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