ITP with caution: libdvdcss

2001-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, The libdvdcss is the Videolan project's DVD decryption software. I would like to know other's position on packaging and distributing it with Debian. http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ I am all for political activism, but I realize that it may cause trouble to Debian so I want to make sure y

Re: standard fonts and euro

2001-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> This string is not trademarked. The string is not trademarked, but it put limits on what the users can do when they rely on software using such strings. If we can't modify helvetica to support the recent 8859-15 encoding, our users won't be able to use our programs (for example Gnumeric) if they

Re: standard fonts and euro

2001-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> "Richard" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In my opinion the free software comunity should stop using all >> registered trademarks, such as helvetica, times, courier, lucida, >> etc. > I have this recollection that "Linux" is

Re: standard fonts and euro

2001-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) All of the fonts in the xfree86 source package are freely licensed. > (N.B., this is not the case with the upstream XFree86 source tarballs.) What are the fonts that have been removed ? > 2) Markus Kuhn has, I believe, extended

standard fonts and euro

2001-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am converting all of my system to ISO-8859-15 and I notice that just the "fixed" font has a 8859-15. It would be great to have standard fonts such as Times, Helvetica, ... be compatible with this encoding. Now, it seems that the fonts coming with XFree86 are copyrighted by Adobe. So what a

Re: request

2001-05-12 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Then. Just send an email to all of the Debian archives, asking people who wants their mail to be removed to tell it. And on the subscription page and with any information related to subscription, warn the subscriber that everything is archived and that by subscribing, he agrees to give Debian the r