devanagari fonts break licenses

Bug #118871 reported by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ttf-indic-fonts (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
ttf-indic-fonts (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Ubuntu Indic Testers

Bug Description

ttf-devanagari-fonts breaks several font's licenses by using Latin glyph from those without respecting it (non free fonts and free fonts).

- Chandas uses Bitstream Vera Sans without using the Bitstream Vera license. It only specifies the GPL license.
- Kalimati uses Tahoma, thus breaking its copyright. It specifies "© Sanir Karmacharya, Suyash Shrestha"
- Samanata uses Eurostile, thus breaking its copyright. It specifies "© Samir Karmacharya, Email: <email address hidden>"

Aksharyogini, Gargi, Nakula, Sahadeva, uses Latin glyphs from what looks like Nimbus Serif/Sans which are under GPL so they are clean.
Lohit doesn't seem to have borrowed glyphs.

Fonts which break copyright _should not_ be distributed unless the license are fixed and copyrights are respected.

Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
assignee: nobody → soumyadip
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → soumyadip
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Ming Hua (minghua)
Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
assignee: soumyadip → nobody
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Soumyadip Modak (soumyadip) wrote :

This bug is closed in the package for Debian Unstable (0.5.0)

Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
assignee: soumyadip → ubuntu-indic-testers
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

fixed in gutsy (version 0.5.0-0ubuntu1)

Changed in ttf-indic-fonts:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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