Forward: Bug#156808: ttftool violates the Berne convention

From: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta@po.airs.net)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 13:21:53 EDT

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    Hi there,

    I got this complaint, seems reasonable and very bad practice(we might
    get sued, actually).

    Would someone fixes this ASAP?

    Regards,
    MH


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    Package: abiword-common
    Version: 1.0.2+cvs.2002.06.05

    Would you be so kind as to forward the following upstream?

    The code in tools/ttftool is a very slight modification of my ttfps
    code. The main change made to the sources is to remove my copyright
    notice, which reads

      /* Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Juliusz Chroboczek */

    and used to be included in every file.

    Removal of a copyright notice is a violation of the Berne convention.
    I request that you reinstate my copyright notice immediately, or else
    stop distributing ttftool.

    I would also like to suggest that proper credit should be given to my
    contribution in the AbiWord documentation, but this is by no means a
    requirement.

    You will find ttfps-0.3 on

      http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/

                                            Juliusz

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