[gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved

Bug #1185469 reported by Stephen Michael Kellat
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lmodern (Debian)
New
Unknown
lmodern (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/694323:

Package: lmodern
Version: 2.004.2-1
Severity: serious
control: block -1 by 694308

This package include copyrighted font hinting from adobe.

t1disasm /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/lmr10.pfb | grep -i -A 10 adobe
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: LMRoman10-Regular 2.004
%%CreationDate: 7th October 2009
% Generated by MetaType1 (a MetaPost-based engine)
% Copyright 2003--2009 by B. Jackowski and J.M. Nowacki (on behalf of TeX USERS GROUPS).
% Supported by CSTUG, DANTE eV, GUST, GUTenberg, NTG, and TUG.
% METATYPE1/Type 1 version by B. Jackowski & J. M. Nowacki
% from GUST (http://www.gust.org.pl).
% This work is released under the GUST Font License.
% For the most recent version of this license see
% This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.
% The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki.
--
% Copyright (c) 1987-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated
% All Rights Reserved.
% This code to be used for hint replacement only
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Thanks

Changed in lmodern (Debian):
importance: Undecided → Unknown
Changed in lmodern (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in lmodern (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in lmodern (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → New
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