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Bug 713504 - media-fonts/tengwar-fonts unclear license, removed upstream
Summary: media-fonts/tengwar-fonts unclear license, removed upstream
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major
Assignee: Licenses team
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Reported: 2020-03-19 17:31 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified: 2020-03-19 17:42 UTC (History)
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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-03-19 17:31:08 UTC 
The original upstream page 
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/tengwar/index.html
states
"This Content has been removed at the request of the Tolkien Estate."
As far I see was the original font by "Tolkien Estate". 
It was somehow reverse engineered and distributed with an unclear non-commercial license. Distribution and mirroring was not explicitly allowed.

-> last riting.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2020-03-19 17:42:45 UTC 
Hm, the Tengwar were created by Feanor in the First Age (Y.T. 1250), so certainly any copyright has expired by now? :)