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Bug 598735 - gnome-font-viewer does not display the "Licence" metadata field
gnome-font-viewer does not display the "Licence" metadata field
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 407605
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] font properties
unspecified
Other Linux
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-16 22:01 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2009-10-17 15:51 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2009-10-16 22:01:28 UTC 
Right now gnome-font-viewer displays the "Copyright" font metadata field.

However, while most fonts put all interesting legal info in there, others only use it for © Mickey Mouse 2066 and put the actual licensing conditions (what you can do with the font) in the "Licence" metadata field.

Therefore this field should be displayed too so users do not inavertently infringe use condition

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Aegean.zip

is an example of a font that would need this
Comment 1 Jens Granseuer 2009-10-17 15:51:43 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407605 ***