Bug 698048 – media-fonts/intlfonts: wrong LICENSE

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2019-10-19 15:47:17 UTC]

LICENSE="GPL-2"

But I don't see a single mention of GPL in the archive.  Most of the fonts seem to have the following comment:

% \(C\) The Omega Project, 1999, http://www.ens.fr/omega. This font can be freely used and distributed. 

or:

COMMENT You can use, copy, modify, distribute this file for free.


I'll switch it to LICENSE=freedist to clear the obvious mistake but further investigation would be desirable.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2019-12-14 21:02:29 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0)
> LICENSE="GPL-2"

This is a GNU package, and https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Intlfonts#tab=Details says GPL-2+ which doesn't look right, indeed.

Debian conclude that some of the fonts are non-free, they say in their intlfonts_1.2.1-10.debian.tar.xz:

   The non-free Tibetian fonts and some Thai fonts with unclear copying
   conditions were removed.

> I'll switch it to LICENSE=freedist to clear the obvious mistake but further
> investigation would be desirable.

- Most fonts are in the public domain.

- Some of the Japanese fonts are distributed under a HPND type notice.

- Tibetan fonts have this:

    Original glyph design: (C) Christopher FYNN 1993-1994.                      
    Many thanks to Chris for kindly permitting its                              
    non-commercial use for our implementation.                                  

I think the following is a reasonable approximation:
LICENSE="public-domain HPND free-noncomm"

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2019-12-23 14:33:32 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bb0e9a99dd0a846b7b1ac7d2f851073480d9054b

commit bb0e9a99dd0a846b7b1ac7d2f851073480d9054b
Author:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-23 14:32:56 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-12-23 14:33:16 +0000

    media-fonts/intlfonts: Fix LICENSE.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698048
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.82, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>

 .../intlfonts/{intlfonts-1.2.1.ebuild => intlfonts-1.2.1-r1.ebuild}     | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

[Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow 2019-12-23 23:41:09 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ee322cebf2fc56ea56f6bbc25c7a5343a5dc3264

commit ee322cebf2fc56ea56f6bbc25c7a5343a5dc3264
Author:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-23 23:40:02 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-12-23 23:40:58 +0000

    media-fonts/intlfonts: Add "non-free" use flag.
    
    This enables installation of non-free Tibetan fonts.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698048
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.82, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>

 media-fonts/intlfonts/intlfonts-1.2.1-r1.ebuild | 10 ++++++++--
 media-fonts/intlfonts/metadata.xml              |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2021-02-16 09:41:55 UTC]

The non-free fonts have been removed in intlfonts-1.4.1, so I've dropped the flag.