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DateWed, 22 Apr 2026 14:37:57 +0000
Sourcefontmatrix
Version0.10.0+ds-1
Changed-ByAlex Myczko
Architecturesource arm64
Distributionunstable
Changelog
fontmatrix (0.10.0+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Re-introduce, new upstream.
   * d/rules: refreshed.
   * d/control:
     - updated libfreetype6-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, qt5 to qt6.
     - update section to fonts. (Closes: #1086738)
   * d/watch: update to version 5.
.dsc
Sectionfonts
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listfontmatrix deb fonts optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: fontmatrix
Upstream-Contact: Blagovest Petrov
Source: https://github.com/eniac111/fontmatrix
Files-Excluded:
 src/graphic-resources/about-vectors.svg
 src/icons/application-fontmatrix-systray-vectors.svg
 src/icons/application-fontmatrix-vectors.svg

Files: *
Copyright:
 2026 Blagovest Petrov <blagovest@petrovs.info>
 2012-2020 Frédéric Coiffier (QT5 port)
           Alessandro Rimoldi <a.l.e@ideale.ch>
           Eclypse <eclipse.magick@gmail.com>
           Peter Linnell <mrdocs@scribus.info>
           Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com>
           Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>
           Riku Leino <riku@scribus.info>
           Vladimir Savic <vladimir.firefly.savic@gmail.com>
 2007-2011 Pierre Marchand <pierre@oep-h.com>
License: GPL-2+

Files: pythonqt/*
Copyright: 2006 MeVis Research GmbH All Rights Reserved.
License: LGPL-2.1+
 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Lesser General Public License for more details.
 .
 Further, this software is distributed without any warranty that it is
 free of the rightful claim of any third person regarding infringement
 or the like.  Any license provided herein, whether implied or
 otherwise, applies only to this software file.  Patent licenses, if
 any, provided herein do not apply to combinations of this program with
 other software, or any other product whatsoever.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 .
 Contact information: MeVis Research GmbH, Universitaetsallee 29,
 28359 Bremen, Germany or:
 .
 http://www.mevis.de

Files: harfbuzz/*
Copyright: 1998-2004 David Turner and Werner Lemberg
           2004,2007 Red Hat, Inc. (Owen Taylor, Behdad Esfahbod)
           2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
License: MIT

License: MIT
 Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without
 license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
 software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that the
 above copyright notice and the following two paragraphs appear in
 all copies of this software.
 .
 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR
 DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
 ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN
 IF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
 DAMAGE.
 .
 THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS
 ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS NO OBLIGATION TO
 PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

Files: help/js/*
Copyright: 2007 John Resig
License: MIT

Files: src/graphic-resources/html-css/fontmatrix.js
Copyright: 2010 The Dojo Foundation
           2010 John Resig
License: DOJO-MIT or GPL-2-or-later
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 .
 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 .
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
 2017-2026 Alex Myczko <tar@debian.org>
 2007-2011 Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

License: GPL-2+
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".

Review Information

rejected — allocated to mechtilde 14 days ago, started 14 days ago, completed 14 days ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

as you can see in the public notes, not all authors are listed.
Additional please check all licenses esp. those in the files listet
in the public notes.

Thanks

Other Reviews of this Package

VersionHashAllocatedCompletedReviewerStatusDetails
0.11.0+ds-1 3d4a0b1b… 2026-04-26 09:36 2026-04-26 10:09 mechtilde accepted VIEW

Public Notes

14 days ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check
Exit code: 0

Using active review (from current.json): fontmatrix
Author check: fontmatrix 0.10.0+ds-1

Scanned 656 files.
Authors declared in debian/copyright: 17

NOT IN debian/copyright (7):

  Behdad Esfahbod
    harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef-private.h:3
    harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef.c:3
    harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef.h:3
    harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gpos-private.h:3
    harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gpos.c:3
    ... and 11 more files

  Craig Bradney
    src/helpbrowser.cpp:8
    src/helpbrowser.h:8

  Evan Teran
    src/QHexView.cpp:2
    src/QHexView.h:2

  Petr Vanek
    src/helpbrowser.cpp:10
    src/helpbrowser.h:10

  Raph Levien
    src/hyphenate/hnjalloc.c:6
    src/hyphenate/hnjalloc.h:6
    src/hyphenate/hyphen.c:6
    src/hyphenate/hyphen.h:21

  Trolltech ASA
    src/schelptreemodel.cpp:3
    src/schelptreemodel.h:3
    src/treeitem.cpp:3
    src/treeitem.h:3
    src/treemodel.cpp:3
    ... and 1 more file

  Unicode, Inc
    src/langs/unicode/COPYING:3

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 7 authors not in debian/copyright
14 days ago ● public

Lintian

Command: lintian -c -E -I -i -L '>=warning' --show-overrides --color=never ../$(basename $PWD)_*.changes
Exit code: 0

N:
W: fontmatrix: embedded-javascript-library please use libjs-jquery [usr/share/fontmatrix/help/js/jquery.js]
N: 
N:   This package contains an embedded copy of JavaScript libraries that are
N:   now available in their own packages (for example, JQuery, Prototype,
N:   Mochikit or "Cropper"). Please depend on the appropriate package and
N:   symlink the library into the appropriate location.
N: 
N:   Please refer to Embedded code copies (Section 4.13) in the Debian Policy
N:   Manual for details.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: languages/javascript/embedded
N: 
N:
W: fontmatrix: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
N: 
N:   The /usr/share/doc/*pkg*/copyright file refers to the old postal address
N:   of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). You should refer to
N:   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ instead of a physical address, for example:
N:   
N:     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
N:     along with this program.  If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: debian/copyright
N: 
N:
N: Partly included in the executable binary with qt resource links. Upstream
N: distributes it like this, repacking would be overkill though.
14 days ago ● public

Licenserecon

Command: lrc | grep -v 'Superfluous file pattern'
Exit code: 0

de: Versions: licenserecon '14.0'  licensecheck '3.3.9-1'

Quellbaum analysieren  ....
Lesen d/copyright  ....
Wird ausgeführt licensecheck ....

d/copyright      | licensecheck

GPL-2+           | GPL               CMakeLists.txt
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-arabic.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-buffer.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-buffer.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-buffer-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-dump.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-dump.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-dump-main.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-external.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gdef-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-global.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gpos.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gpos.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gpos-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gsub.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gsub.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-gsub-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-hangul.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-hebrew.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-impl.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-impl.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-indic.cpp
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-khmer.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-myanmar.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-open.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-open.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-open-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-shape.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-shaper-all.cpp
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-shaper.cpp
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-shaper.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-shaper-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-stream.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-stream.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-stream-private.h
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-thai.c
MIT              | MIT~old           harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz-tibetan.c
DOJO-MIT or GPL-2-or-later| Expat             src/graphic-resources/html-css/fontmatrix.js
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2+ and/or MPL-1.0 src/hyphenate/hnjalloc.c
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2+ and/or MPL-1.0 src/hyphenate/hnjalloc.h
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2+ and/or MPL-1.0 src/hyphenate/hyphen.c
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2+ and/or MPL-1.0 src/hyphenate/hyphen.h
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2.1+         src/panosematch.cpp
GPL-2+           | LGPL-2.1+         src/panosematch.h
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/schelptreemodel.cpp
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/schelptreemodel.h
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/treeitem.cpp
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/treeitem.h
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/treemodel.cpp
GPL-2+           | GPL-2             src/treemodel.h

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