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Bug 702680 - media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r3: LICENSE should be "freedist free-noncomm all-rights-reserved"
Summary: media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r3: LICENSE should be "freedist free-noncomm all-r...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Blocks: freedist-license
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Reported: 2019-12-13 12:39 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2020-01-11 16:11 UTC (History)
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Licenses found in the package's tarball (freefonts.license,6.99 KB, text/plain)
2019-12-13 12:39 UTC, Ulrich Müller
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-12-13 12:39:22 UTC
Created attachment 599338 [details]
Licenses found in the package's tarball

The ebuild has LICENSE="freedist", but this doesn't seem to apply to all fonts included with the collection. See attached list of licenses (which is no fun to read). Some have a non-commercial restriction, some don't grant any permissions at all, or their language is so vague that it isn't clear what the permissions are.

freefonts-0.10.lsm says this:
Copying-policy: Varies, but all are usable without charge

So, LICENSE="freedist free-noncomm all-rights-reserved" would be a better approximation, and of course mirror and bindist restrictions should be added, because some of the package's contents is not redistributable.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-01-11 16:11:13 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ce68ce7768f1749d57ce1c03b389680e6864c675

commit ce68ce7768f1749d57ce1c03b389680e6864c675
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-01-11 16:10:06 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-01-11 16:10:06 +0000

    media-fonts/freefonts: Fix LICENSE, add mirror restriction.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702680
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 .../freefonts/{freefonts-0.10-r3.ebuild => freefonts-0.10-r4.ebuild} | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)