[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1041017: fonts-kacst: unclear licensing status, possibly non-free

[Kunal Mehta]

Package: fonts-kacst
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
X-Debbugs-Cc: legoktm at debian.org, khaled at aliftype.com

Khaled Hosny (cc'd) filed a bug against LibreOffice[1], writing:

The last versions of these fonts were prepared by me, over a decade
ago, when I was still believing these are FOSS fonts, but I’m no longer 
sure about their legal status. They disappeared entirely from KACST
website where they were once hosted, and attempts to get in contact
with anyone who knows anything about them failed. They appear to be
clones of other non-free fonts, so the whole thing is shady.

The fonts have since been removed from LibreOffice[2]. Filing as serious
given the questionable licensing.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152376
[2] https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6d6a2343b1d45695f3ea02818d317a022a7b259f

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
  APT prefers oldstable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.35-1.qubes.fc32.x86_64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fonts-kacst depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.20.12

Versions of packages fonts-kacst recommends:
pn  fonts-kacst-one  <none>

fonts-kacst suggests no packages.