Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved

[Stephen Michael Kellat]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/694325:

Package: xfonts-mathml
Version: 6
Severity: serious
control: block -1 by 694308

This package include copyrighted font hinting from adobe.

For instance
 t1disasm /usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml/Symbol.pfb | grep -i adobe -A 10
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Symbol 001.005
%%Title: Symbol
%Version: 001.005
%%CreationDate: Sat Feb 23 19:27:09 2008
%%Creator: Atsuhito KOHDA,,,
%Copyright: Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1997 by URW
% Generated by FontForge 20080203 (http://fontforge.sf.net/)
%%EndComments

FontDirectory/Symbol known{/Symbol findfont dup/UniqueID known{dup
/UniqueID get 4245556 eq exch/FontType get 1 eq and}{pop false}ifelse
--
% Copyright (c) 1987-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
% All Rights Reserved.
% This code to be used for Flex and hint replacement.
% Version 1.1
[ systemdict /internaldict known
{1183615869 systemdict /internaldict get exec
/FlxProc known {save true} {false} ifelse}
{userdict /internaldict known not {
userdict /internaldict
{count 0 eq
{/internaldict errordict /invalidaccess get exec} if

Thanks

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

Looks like this license issue is partly the reason why the package was removed from Debian [1]. I guess someone (perhaps the arhive-team?) should at least take a look at this.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749837

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It was removed from wily a little while ago, following the Debian removal. See:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfonts-mathml/+publishinghistory