[Bug 489830] Review Request: figlet - FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

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--- Comment #7 from Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>  2009-03-12 11:45:56 EDT ---
Good idea.  Forgot the list was private.

Posted to figlet mailing list:

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:28:28 -0700                                          
                           From: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>
To: figlet at figlet.org
Subject: [FIGlet] Licensing issues with figlet
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

Hello all;

I'm trying to get figlet included in Fedora[1] but have run into 
a snag with the licenses of a couple of the source files relating
to decompressing zipfiles of compressed fonts.  Namely, crc.c,
crc.h, inflate.c, inflate.h, zipio.c and zipio.h.  It appears
three of the files, chkfont.c, figlist and showfigfonts have no
licensing notice at all in them.

If there are any developers out there on this list, could I get 
some comments?

  * Can the zipfile related routines be relicensed?  I imagine 
    we'd have to contact the original author listed there for 
    this, maybe he's on this list?  I'll try the email listed 
    there as well.
  * Could these routines be rewritten to use something free?  
    Should be existing code out there that could be reused for 
    this purpose.
  * Maybe we don't need compressed font files at all anymore, 
    disk space is not as big of an issue these days.

Thoughts appreciated.  Please see the bz link above for comments 
and concerns.  Also this[2] debian bug gives a bit more detailed
commentary.

Ray

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489830
[2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274950

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