From: Mark Gilbert (webmaster@dofty.zzn.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 16:04:38 EDT
I have made and committed the changes, HEAD and STABLE branch. I'd like
to apologize on behalf of whomever made the fork/copy for not giving
credit where due, though he may have been under the impression that
after modifying the product, it was not right to give you the liability
for any possible problems.
Regardless, it's been fixed.
-MG
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:21, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I got this complaint, seems reasonable and very bad practice(we might
> get sued, actually).
>
> Would someone fixes this ASAP?
>
> Regards,
> MH
>
> ----
>
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#156808: ttftool violates the Berne convention
> Date: 15 Aug 2002 18:54:53 +0200
>
> 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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