[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#376686: Missing fonts in ttf-farsiweb

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Youssef Chahibi (chahibi at gmail.com):
> Package: ttf-farsiweb
> Version: 0.4-4
> 
> 
> 	Compared with the farsi_fonts_0.4.tar.bz2 archive provided by Arabeyes 
> (http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot), ttf-farsiweb misses the 
> following fonts: elham koodak roya royab terafik terafikb .


IIRC, this comes from licensing issue. There are very few information
abou tthe eaxct licensing in the original package, but the NEWS file
explicitely says:

You can freely share and distribute all of the fonts, if you don't sell
them directly (with no accompanying software), or change or rename them.
Some of these fonts are licensed under the GNU General Public License
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL), which will give you
even more rights as a user and developer. For more details, see the
license field of the fonts themselves, and the file COPYING or
COPYING.txt in the zip file. Other kinds of licensing is also available
from Sharif FarsiWeb Inc, which can be contacted at "info at farsiweb.info".

I'll try to thinkk about checking the licensing stuff in all fonts in
the original package, but I'm nearly suyre that this is the reasons
that makes the package truncated in Debian.


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