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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion

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On 2020-11-18 23:45, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> I think the explanation can be found in d/control of fonts-ubuntu:
>> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fonts-ubuntu/control-0.83-4
>> It says "Section: non-free/fonts" also in the Ubuntu archive.
> 
> frankly I don't understand why you don't fix this on the Ubuntu side? :)

Well, I now realize that it could probably be fixed in the fonts-ubuntu 
package. (But even then I think it would be preferable to do it in 
Debian to not stop the possibility for Ubuntu to sync the source.)

>> And that's probably the reason why the adjustment I propose in the
>> merge request makes a difference.
> 
> actually I dont see a merge request anywhere(???)

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/vrms/-/merge_requests/1

>> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fonts-ubuntu/copyright-0.83-4
> 
> ah, thanks.
> 
> That file refers to #603157 which is a rather old and which states that
> a.) the Ubuntu Fonts License 1.0 is an interim solution and b.) that
> everybody would like to fix the build system, so that ubuntu-fonts could
> probably also go into main in Debian. Do you know of any progress on
> these issues?

Can't tell if anything has happened there. My attention to the issue was 
called the other day via the Ask Ubuntu questions I mentioned in the 
beginning of this bug report.

>> fonts-ubuntu                        sans-serif font set from Ubuntu
>> [...]
> 
> ok, so it's detected as coming from non-free which makes sense now that I
> know what's in debian/control of that package..
> 
> So, I don't think this should be fixed in vrms: the fonts-ubuntu package
> on Ubuntu ships meta data which specifies the package is non-free and
> vrms merely displays this information. So even on the Ubuntu side I think
> this should be fixed in src:fonts-ubuntu and non in src:vrms. >
> Unless some convincing argument shows up I will close this bug soon.

What you say makes sense. The reason I submitted this bug was that it's 
the existence of vrms which makes it an issue. Anyway, I'll see if it 
can be handled in src:fonts-ubuntu instead.

Thanks!

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-17 19:10 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 01:50 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 22:50 +0100
    Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 23:40 +0100
      Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:50 +0100
        Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-19 00:30 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:00 +0100

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