[Pkg-tikiwiki-devel] Re: Bug#377943: tikiwiki: distributing "Houndtime" infringes copyright and violates policy 2.2.1

[mose]

le Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:03:55PM +0200 par Marcus Better :
> tag 377943 pending
> thanks
> 
> Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > lib/graph2/ARIALDB.TTF contains a font named "Houndtime".
> 
> Thanks for the information. As this file doesn't seem to be used
> anywhere in Tikiwiki, I will simply remove it, along with a lot of other
> unused code, in the next release.

- that font is used for galaxia graphing. 
http://www.abstractfonts.com/designer/279/bree%20gorton is the author.

The readme included in the zip says : 
"This font was made by The Font Farm, it's free to use."

That's quite a short licence, but I'm not sure it breaks possible use
in a LGPL context. If you feel there is a doubt I'll contact author
(gort at callnetuk.com) and ask for permission.


> > Note that there's still a good job to do to get all the borrowed code
> > properly acknowledged in debian/copyright.
> 
> I've included all copyright notices I could find, and checked for
> obvious mistakes, but if you know any code that is "borrowed" and
> suspicious then please let me know. Obviously I have to draw the line
> somewhere and assume that upstream didn't just steal every line of code.

- tikiwiki developers made a lot of efforts to enforce LGPL compatibility 
of all code included in first versions of Tikiwiki. There should be no hole 
left, and if there is, that's considered as a bug, and if reported it will 
be fixed instantly.


> > There's also IMO a huge job to do to get the copyright on all the
> borrowed images.
> 
> I'll talk to upstream about it. Do you have reasons to suspect that some
> images are "borrowed"?

- we already removed avatars that were stolen boldly from various
sources. If Chealer (philippe cloutier or filupus klutiero) talks about 
icons contained in img/icons/, well, there are a bunch of them and 
I have no idea how to track them all. For example, who can say who 
is the copyright holder for img/icons/clear.gif and what are its
conditions of use ?


cheers,
mose