[Bug 820642] Review Request: figlet - A program for making large letters out of ordinary text

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changed Bug 820642
What Removed Added
Blocks   182235

Comment # 23 from
A comment, which describes which file has which license is still missing:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licensing_Scenarios

(In reply to comment #13)
> John Cowan from the FIGlet development team informed us that:
> 
> "Bitmap fonts are in the public domain in the U.S., because they are
> considered insufficiently creative to copyright.  Specifically, the actual
> *appearance* of a font cannot be copyrighted, and bitmaps are considered
> just a trivial transformation of the appearance.  Scalable fonts are
> computer programs, though, and are copyrightable."

According to that, the fonts should be "Public Domain" and that license is
missing yet.

Blocking FE-LEGAL to get clarification of the above and a "English" to "yes/no"
translation...
(More aabout that in comment #9 comment #20)


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