Bug 434262 – media-fonts/urwvn-fonts - wrong license due to vn garamond

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arne Babenhauserheide 2012-09-07 21:23:00 UTC]

Dear Gentoo Maintainers,

media-fonts/urwvn-fonts ships URW Garamond, which is only free for noncommercial use, but the ebuild names GPL-2 as license.

Please check with

equery b /usr/share/fonts/urwvn-fonts/ugmm8v.ttf

To check the licensing, please see doc/generic/vntex/vntex.pdf in http://sourceforge.net/projects/vntex/files/VnTeX-current/vntex-3.2.tar.xz/download

--- 
Chapter 4.1.2
VnT EX nonfree Fonts
Some of the fonts donated by URW can be used freely but they can’t be distributed
if money is charged for the distribution. These fonts are not part of the VnTEX core
distribution because otherwise VnTEX can’t be in TeX Live or in Linux distributions.
These fonts are:
URW Classico (URW version of Hermann Zapf’s Optima)
URW Garamond
There is an extra package containing these fonts:
http://vntex.sourceforge.net/download/vntex/vntex-nonfree.zip
http://vntex.sourceforge.net/download/vntex/vntex-nonfree.tar.xz
If you are using TeX Live, you can download and execute install-getnonfreefonts from
http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts
and run getnonfreefonts --help on the command line for more information.
... 

URW Classico and Vn Garamond should not be installed if the ebuild states GPL as license.

Please correct the license - this bit me while I was trying to find free replacements of fonts for free licensed text.

[Comment 1 Juraj Variny 2015-02-04 14:30:10 UTC]

According to http://garamond.org/, they were published under "Alladin Free Public License" and latest version is here: https://github.com/rbrito/urw-garamond 

The license link is dead, but it seems to be this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Free_Public_License

I have arrived on this bug due to apparent absence of Garamond in Gentoo and then it gets badly aliased to some italic font, discussed here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3668683.html#3668683 It is also visible both in Firefox and Chromium on websites that don't provide garamond webfont: http://www.talesofmu.com/ - everything that should be garamond, is in cursive.

To enable them, I have downloaded the TTF fonts from garamond.org into /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ (directory was not existing previously) and added /etc/fonts/conf.d/58-garamond.conf with contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <!-- Font substitution rules -->
<match>
    <test name="family"><string>Garamond</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
        <string>GaramondNo8</string>
    </edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

[Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-02-21 17:24:29 UTC]

+  21 Feb 2015; Ben de Groot <[e-mail]> urwvn-fonts-3.05.ebuild:
+  Add Aladdin license for URW Garamond (bug #434262). Bump to EAPI=5. Tighten up
+  formatting.