Bug 452380 – media-fonts/ipamonafont: unclear license

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2013-01-15 15:46:56 UTC]

As far as I can see, the package installs only files from the fonts/ subdirectory. The COPYING.font.ja seems to be the Japanese version of the "grass-ipafonts" license, which is already in LICENSE of the ebuild.

However, there is also fonts/doc/mona/README.euc which is in Japanese, but contains a few English words like "public domain" from which I conclude that it contains additional license information.

Please clarify under what terms this package is distributed.

[Comment 1 Naohiro Aota 2013-01-25 04:16:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> As far as I can see, the package installs only files from the fonts/
> subdirectory. The COPYING.font.ja seems to be the Japanese version of the
> "grass-ipafonts" license, which is already in LICENSE of the ebuild.

Yes, that file is the Japanese version of "grass-ipafonts"

> However, there is also fonts/doc/mona/README.euc which is in Japanese, but
> contains a few English words like "public domain" from which I conclude that
> it contains additional license information.

This font is miture of 
- IPA font
- Sazanami font
- Mona font
- M+ font

so the license should be union of all the above license.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2013-02-04 08:45:00 UTC]

So, LICENSE="grass-ipafonts mplus-fonts public-domain"?

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2013-02-05 17:55:30 UTC]

Fixed.