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Review: fonts-xolonium 4.2-1

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DateFri, 28 Nov 2025 09:33:00 +0100
Sourcefonts-xolonium
Version4.2-1
Changed-BySébastien Noel
Architecturesource all
Distributionunstable
Changelog
fonts-xolonium (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release. (Closes: #1110421)
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Componentmain
Package-Listfonts-xolonium deb fonts optional arch=all
Sectionfonts
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: https://gitlab.com/sev/xolonium
Upstream-Name: Xolonium
Upstream-Contact: https://gitlab.com/sev/xolonium/-/issues

Files: *
Copyright: 2011-2020 Severin Meyer
License: GPL2+exception
 This font is free software. You can redistribute 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 any later version.
 .
 This font 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 font. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
 font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into
 the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting
 document to be covered by the GNU General Public License.
 .
 This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why
 the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
 If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your
 version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do
 not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
Comment:
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".
Comment2:
 The font is originally dual licensed under OFL-1.1+RFN and GPL2+exception.
 But as we cannot rebuilt it bit-for-bit identical to the files distributed
 upstream, we choose to distribute it only under GPL2+exception.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2025 Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>
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 package. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Comment:
 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

accepted — allocated to awm 21 days ago, started 21 days ago, completed 20 days ago.

Final Comment

It's a bit odd to see the debian/copyright and then see the LICENSE.txt with OFL,
but I guess this is still needed for the source code - only the compiled font
will be GPL2+ with exception.

Public Notes

20 days ago ● public

Licenserecon

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

en: Versions: licenserecon '11.1'  licensecheck '3.3.9-1'

Parsing Source Tree  ....
Reading d/copyright  ....
Running licensecheck ....

debian/copyright has unused license (GPL-2+ and/or OFL-1.0) with Font-exception-2.0 exception
LICENSE.txt has unused license OFL-1.1
Makefile has unused license GPL-2 with Font-exception-2.0 exception
src/sfd/Xolonium-Bold.sfd has unused license OFL-1.1
src/sfd/Xolonium-Regular.sfd has unused license OFL-1.1
xonotic/COPYING.txt has unused license GPL-2
xonotic/README.txt has unused license GPL-2 with Font-exception-2.0 exception
No significant differences found

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