debian/copyright: Explain the origin and copyright status of 6x13O.

[xfonts-traditional] / debian / copyright

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index d61e182..c7898da 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The machinery in this package is Copyright (C)2012 Ian Jackson.
+The machinery in this package is Copyright (C) 2012 Ian Jackson.

 It is released under the following licence:
 
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 It is released under the following licence:
 
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a


@@ -19,18 +19,23 @@ It is released under the following licence:
   ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
   DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
   ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
   DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 

-The font glyph shape information is from pcfs which were copied out of
+Most font glyph shape information is from pcfs which were copied out of

 xfonts-base.  For "good", version 3.3.6-2 and for "bad" 1:1.0.1.
 
 xfonts-base.  For "good", version 3.3.6-2 and for "bad" 1:1.0.1.
 

-These pcfs were originally generated from source code in that
+Most pcfs were originally generated from source code in that

 xfonts-base; but here, in xfonts-traditional, we do not modify them
 any longer.  (It would be possible to build-depend on the relevant
 xfonts-base, but this would make life worse rather than better because
 it would make the resulting xfonts-traditional binary package
 xfonts-base; but here, in xfonts-traditional, we do not modify them
 any longer.  (It would be possible to build-depend on the relevant
 xfonts-base, but this would make life worse rather than better because
 it would make the resulting xfonts-traditional binary package

-nonfunction if you happened to already have a traditional xfonts-base
-installed.)
+nonfunctional if you happened to already have a traditional xfonts-base
+installed on the build host.)

 
 

-The copyright files for the xfonts-base packages follow.
+The font 6x13O is an exception: no oblique version of 6x13 existed in
+xfonts-base 3.3.6-2.  Mark Wooding created the `good' version of this font by
+hand-editing the `bad' version.  The edited version, like the original, is in
+the public domain.
+
+The copyright files for the two xfonts-base packages follow.

 
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