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has caused the Debian Bug report #647697,
regarding libsfml-dev: libsfml embeds non-free Arial font
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Package: libsfml-dev
Version: 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Hi,
In the SFML fonts tutorial, it is mentioned that "SFML provides a
default built-in one, which is Arial with a character size of 30."
http://sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/graphics-fonts.php
The file is indeed present in:
src/SFML/Graphics/Arial.hpp
It can be extracted trivially:
#include <stdio.h>
static const char DefaultFontData[] =
{
#include "Arial.hpp"
};
int main(void) {
FILE* out = fopen("arial.ttf", "w");
fwrite(DefaultFontData, sizeof(DefaultFontData), 1, out);
}
The version in Debian carries that file AFAICT.
This brings 2 issues:
- The font is not DFSG-compliant and needs to be replaced.
- The license of the font may be incompatible with the program that
uses SFML. For instance, if we replace this font with
Liberation-Sans (GPL2+exceptions), which is metrically compatible
with Arial, the resulting library will not be compabible with a
GPL-without-exception application. A work-around is to load the
font from an external file.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg36597.html
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Sylvain
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libsfml-dev depends on:
ii libsfml-audio1.6 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libsfml-graphics1.6 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libsfml-network1.6 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libsfml-system1.6 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libsfml-window1.6 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
libsfml-dev recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libsfml-dev suggests:
ii libsfml-doc 1.6+dfsg1-2
ii libsfml1.6-dbg 1.6+dfsg1-2+b1
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Version: 1.6+dfsg2-1
Wrong bug closed in changelog
Regards
Christoph
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