Bug 881589

Summary:	media-fonts/freefont has incorrect LICENSE
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ganooslashlinus
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ganooslashlinus 2022-11-17 04:56:53 UTC

LICENSE="GPL-3"

https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/license.html
Free UCS scalable fonts 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 
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 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. 


Should be: LICENSE="GPL-3+-with-font-exception"

Comment 1 ganooslashlinus 2022-11-17 04:59:45 UTC

Also, HOMEPAGE probably should be changed from: savannah.nongnu.org to: https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont