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Bug 880295 - media-fonts/unifont has incorrect LICENSE
Summary: media-fonts/unifont has incorrect LICENSE
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2022-11-08 05:12 UTC by ganooslashlinus
Modified: 2022-11-08 06:24 UTC (History)
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Attachments
scancode-toolkit output (unifont-14.0.03.csv,308.65 KB, text/csv)
2022-11-08 05:12 UTC, ganooslashlinus
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Description ganooslashlinus 2022-11-08 05:12:49 UTC
Created attachment 828559 [details]
scancode-toolkit output

LICENSE="GPL-2"

COPYING:
License for all non-font source code in this package:

   This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.
...
License for font/plane00/jiskan16-plane00.hex and
font/plane02/jiskan16-plane02.hex:

     These two files are in the Public Domain.  They were created
     from Public Domain BDF font files jiskan16-2004-1.bdf and
     jiskan16-2000-2.bdf.
...
License for font files except the jiskan16 files mentioned above
are dual-licensed under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1,
and under this GNU license:

     All glyphs are released under the GNU General Public License
     (GPL) version 2 or (at your option) a later version, with the
     GNU font embedding exception:

          ** GPL v2.0 license with font embedding exception:

          As a special exception, if you create a document which
          uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions
          of this font into the document, this font does not by
          itself cause the resulting document to be covered by
          the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
          however invalidate any other reasons why the document
          might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
          If you modify this font, you may extend this exception
          to your version of the font, but you are not obligated
          to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
          exception statement from your version.
...
 The files doc/unifont.* are released under the following terms:

        Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
        under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
        any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
        Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
...


I can't find anything GPLv2-only with scancode-toolkit.

Should be: LICENSE="GPL-2+ public-domain || (GPL-2+-with-font-exception OFL-1.1) FDL-1.3+" (GPL-2+-with-font-exception needs to be created)