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Bug 420025 - media-fonts/font-bh-ttf: wrong LICENSE
Summary: media-fonts/font-bh-ttf: wrong LICENSE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Highest normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/...
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Reported: 2012-06-07 03:38 UTC by Luke-Jr
Modified: 2014-09-28 14:21 UTC (History)
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Description Luke-Jr 2012-06-07 03:38:34 UTC 
The Luxi font family, at least, is *not* MIT-licensed, and forbids modification.

Furthermore, modifying the font in violation of the license revokes the license entirely. As a result of this, I can no longer legally copy this font at all. :(
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-07 11:55:29 UTC 
Both COPYING and COPYRIGHT.BH do say so, indeed.
Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2014-09-14 17:32:21 UTC 
The B&H font licenses are fixed now.

To me the license reads only that it does not cover modified versions of the font.
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-09-25 07:37:25 UTC 
@Licenses team: I believe that the "bh-luxi" license can be added to the @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group. Any other opinion?
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-09-28 14:21:15 UTC 
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #3)
> I believe that the "bh-luxi" license can be added to the
> @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group.

Done.