Bug 702596

Summary:	media-fonts/cronyx-fonts-2.3.8: LICENSE should be "MIT"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	702470

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-12-12 13:06:42 UTC

DEBIAN/copyright in the tarball says:

--- 8< ---
Copyright (C) 1994-1995 Cronyx Ltd.
Changes Copyright (C) 1996-1997 by Andrey A. Chernov, Moscow, Russia.
Changes Copyright (C) 1996 by Sergey Vovk
Changes made in 1999-2001 by Serge Winitzki

This software may be used, modified, copied, distributed, and sold,
in both source and binary form provided that the above copyright
and these terms are retained. Under no circumstances is the author
responsible for the proper functioning of this software, nor does
the author assume any responsibility for damages incurred with its use.
--- >8 ---

This is a free software license, and Debian classifies it as such. We don't appear to have a license file with the exact wording, but (considering that these fonts were distributed with X11R6) I think that "MIT" is close enough.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-12-24 13:42:03 UTC

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

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=12f8ee91c2ea3d09da8404df63162ce814a79bfa

commit 12f8ee91c2ea3d09da8404df63162ce814a79bfa
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-24 13:41:40 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-12-24 13:41:40 +0000

    media-fonts/cronyx-fonts: Fix LICENSE.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702596
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.82, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 media-fonts/cronyx-fonts/cronyx-fonts-2.3.8.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)