Games, fonts and licenses

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

The Fedora font SIG (special interest group) has been doing an audit of all
Fedora packages, looking for packages which include private fonts, with the
purpose to get these to either use system fonts, or package the fonts
separately so that they can be used elsewhere too.

Unsurprising quite a large numer of games is effected, and the results are not
always good.

Here is a list, including the way things where solved in Fedora:
egoboo:
Includes 2 non free fonts, remove replace with symlink to dejavu-sans

hedgewars:
Includes private dejavu copy, remove replace with symlink

freecol:
Includes 2 fonts:
* Plakat-Fraktur.ttf: non free removed
* ShadowedBlack.ttf: free, put in a separate subpackage
The following sed command was used to replace all uses of
Plakat-Fraktur with ShadowedBlack:
sed -i 's/Plakat-Fraktur/ShadowedBlack/g' \
   src/net/sf/freecol/client/gui/i18n/FreeColMessages_*.properties \
   data/strings/FreeColMessages_*.properties

ogre:
Non free fonts under Samples/Media/fonts, removed replaced by symlinks to
dejavu-lgc.

scorched3d:
includes a copy of vera, replaced with symlinks to dejavu, includes a copy
of Arial Italic (bad!) replaced with symlink to dejavu sans oblique

seahorse-adventures (barbie)
includes a copy of vera, replaced with symlinks to dejavu

trackballs
includes a copy of gnu freefont, replaced with symlinks to dejavu

Regards,

Hans


p.s.

Spread the word: ImageMagick is affected too:
PerlMagick contains 2 copies of the freeware (but not Free as in free software)
    ArtBrush font:
PerlMagick/t/ttf/input.ttf
PerlMagick/demo/Generic.ttf

See:
http://www.getfreefonts.info/free_font.artbrush.html